Top 200 Creativity Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “God wants to increase you financially, by giving you promotions, fresh ideas and creativity.”

— Joel Osteen

152. “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Beautiful Quotes, Culture Quotes, Beauty Quotes

153. “Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes, Preparation Quotes

154. “Don’t hire a dog, then bark yourself.”

— David Ogilvy

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Funny Office Quotes

155. “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

— E. L. Doctorow

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing

156. “There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”

— Edmund Burke

157. “If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.”

— Jeff Bezos

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158. “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Passion Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Artist Quotes, Depression Quotes

159. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

— William Wordsworth

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

160. “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Vision Quotes

161. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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162. “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”

— Aaron Copland

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

163. “Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Personality Quotes, Identity Quotes

164. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Firsts Quotes

165. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

— John Keats

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes

166. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Artist Quotes, Painting Quotes

167. “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Artist Quotes

168. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Sunday Quotes, Cute Quotes, Book Quotes

169. “A word after a word after a word is power.”

— Margaret Atwood

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Fiction Quotes, Communication Quotes, Reading Quotes

170. “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Positive Short Quotes

171. “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Philosophy Quotes, Culture Quotes

172. “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”

— Salvador Dalí

Also featured in: Painting Quotes

173. “It’s better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!”

— Ricky Gervais

Also featured in: Opportunity Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Passion Quotes, Fun Quotes

174. “Creativity is an import-export business.”

— Ethan Zuckerman

175. “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Challenges Quotes, Witty Quotes

176. “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

— Philip José Farmer

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Storytelling Quotes

177. “The creative adult is the child who has survived.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

178. “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anaïs Nin

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Individuality Quotes

179. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes

180. “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

181. “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

— Virginia Woolf

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Quotes About Writing, Knowledge Quotes

182. “K.I.S.S.”

— Keep It Simple, Stupid

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183. “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Passion Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Artist Quotes

184. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Artist Quotes

185. “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

— Andy Warhol

Also featured in: Taking Action Quotes, Practice Quotes, Artist Quotes, Art Quotes

186. “Art is a way of survival.”

— Yoko Ono

Also featured in: Art Quotes

187. “You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.”

— Leonard Cohen

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Art Quotes

188. “The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

— David Viscott

Also featured in: Passion Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Purpose Quotes

189. “To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Problem-Solving Quotes, Smart Quotes, Clever Quotes

190. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Learning Quotes, Science Quotes

191. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Failure Quotes, Change Quotes

192. “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

— John Ruskin

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Mastery Quotes

193. “I am not strange. I am just not normal.”

— Salvador Dalí

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes, Different Quotes, Individuality Quotes

194. “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Witty Quotes

195. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Leadership Quotes

196. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Business Quotes

197. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Self-Belief Quotes

198. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

199. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

200. “Think Different.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Technology Quotes, Innovation Quotes