Top 200 Creativity Quotes (2024 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

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

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

— David Ogilvy

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

— E. L. Doctorow

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

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

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

— Aaron Copland

163. “Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— John Keats

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Walt Disney

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

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

— Salvador Dalí

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

— Ricky Gervais

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

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

— Philip José Farmer

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

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

— Richard Branson

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

182. “K.I.S.S.”

— Keep It Simple, Stupid

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

186. “Art is a way of survival.”

— Yoko Ono

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

— Leonard Cohen

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

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

— Charlie Munger

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Salvador Dalí

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

— Oscar Wilde

195. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Walt Disney

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Thomas A. Edison

200. “Think Different.”

— Steve Jobs