Top 200 Creativity Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

— Stephen King

102. “Story is king. Everything else is slave to story.”

— Casey Neistat

103. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

— Pablo Picasso

104. “Music is an outburst of the soul.”

— Frederick Delius

105. “It’s better to dance than to march through life.”

— Yoko Ono

106. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”

— Bob Ross

107. “Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”

— T. S. Eliot

108. “Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”

— Kurt Cobain

109. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

110. “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

— Ansel Adams

111. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

112. “There is a time and a place for creativity.”

— William Redington Hewlett

113. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

114. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

— Vincent van Gogh

115. “If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”

— Eckhart Tolle

116. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

117. “Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

— Edward De Bono

118. “I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

— William Blake

119. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

120. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

— Ansel Adams

121. “Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”

— Paulo Coelho

122. “Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.”

— Barack Obama

123. “The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.”

— Alan Cohen

124. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.”

— Jeff Bezos

125. “I have absolutely no limits on what I intend to create.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

126. “Ideas come from curiosity.”

— Walt Disney

127. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

— Oscar Wilde

128. “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.”

— Salvador Dalí

129. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

— Oscar Wilde

130. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”

— Neil Gaiman

131. “Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.”

— Yoko Ono

132. “And that’s what innocence is. It’s simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.”

— Michael Jackson

133. “If the reason why you’re doing anything creative is to make a living, then you’re doing it wrong.”

— Casey Neistat

134. “I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.”

— Shakira

135. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

— Robin Williams

136. “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”

— Rumi

137. “I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.”

— Richard Florida

138. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

139. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac

140. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

— Anaïs Nin

141. “The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

142. “I dwell in possibility.”

— Emily Dickinson

143. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

— Pablo Picasso

144. “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

— Frank Zappa

145. “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

— Terry Pratchett

146. “Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

— Brené Brown

147. “We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.”

— Steve Jobs

148. “Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

149. “You're only given a little spark of madness. Don't lose it.”

— Robin Williams

150. “No one is you, and that is your power.”

— Dave Grohl