1. Creativity is seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

- Michele Shea

2. Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

- Tim Cook

3. 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

4. A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

- Abraham Maslow

5. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

- Julia Cameron

6. Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.

- Frank Goble

7. Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

- Alan Cohen

8. An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

- Julia Cameron

9. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

- Theodore Levitt

10. One of my early mentors, poet David Wagoner, who divides the creative process into three phases – madman, poet and critic – once told me that you need to find your own magic to stay in the world of creative play.

- Sonia Gernes

11. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

12. Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

- Rita Mae Brown

13. The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.

- Abe Tannenbaum

14. Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

- Arthur Koestler

15. Creativity takes courage.

- Henri Matisse

16. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

- Oscar Wilde

17. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

- Edward de Bono

18. When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

- Tony Bennett

19. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

- Pablo Picasso

20. The most talented, thought-provoking, game-changing people are never normal.

- Sir Richard Branson

21. The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

- Neil Gaiman

22. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

- Oscar Wilde

23. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

- Mary Shelly

24. Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out.

- David Duchovny

25. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

- Albert Einstein

26. Creative thinking is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.

- Edward de Bono

27. To be creative means to be in love with life.

- Osho

28. The important thing for you is to be alert, to question, to find out, so that your own initiative may be awakened.

- Bruce Lee

29. It’s no accident that AHA and HAHA are spelled almost the same way.

- Mitch Ditkoff

30. The Stone Age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.

- Unknown

31. Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

- Voltaire

32. Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.

- Bruce Garrabrandt

33. The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

- Arthur Koestler

34. Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

- Charles Mingus

35. Creative works may indeed be kind of like property, but it’s property that we’re all building on.

- Kirby Ferguson

36. Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions – if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

- Robert M. Hayes

37. All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

- Carl Jung

38. Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

- Debbie Ford

39. The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

- G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown My

40. The more you know, the more you want to know. Not only that, but the more you know, the more connections you can make between the different bits of knowledge that you have in your head and therefore the more ideas you have, which is why curiosity is really the wellspring of creativity.

- Georgina Venning

41. If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

- John Cleese

42. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

- Carl Sagan

43. If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

- Peter F. Drucker

44. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

- Ray Bradbury

45. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

- Bertrand Russell

46. Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

- Bryant H. McGill

47. Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

- Criss Jami

48. Create with the heart; build with the mind.

- Criss Jami

49. There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

- Marta Graham

50. You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

- Jack London

51. A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

- Gerald G. Jampolsky

52. Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

- Edward de Bono

53. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

- Carl Jung

54. Some people use things; they destroy. You’re a creator, a builder.

- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

55. Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

- Arthur Koestler

56. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

- George Lois

57. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

- Benjamin Franklin

58. An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

- Wayne W. Dyer

59. The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

- Anthony Jay

60. Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

- Erich Fromm

61. It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

- Arthur Erickson

62. For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

- Jean Dubuffet

63. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

- Dee Hock

64. Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

- Julia Cameron

65. Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

- Beatrix Potter

66. Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

- Joel Salatin

67. An idea is like a virus. Resilient.

- Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception

68. An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

- Edward de Bono

69. It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.

- Herman Melville

70. The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

- Ernest Becker

71. An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

- Edward de Bono

72. Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

- Mason Cooley

73. The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

- Joan Miró

74. People have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

- Paul Ryan

75. There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

- Edward de Bono

76. Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

- Karl Lagerfeld

77. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

- Alan Alda

78. Every day is an opportunity to be creative – the canvas is your mind, the brushes and colors are your thoughts and feelings, the panorama is your story, the complete picture is a work of art called, ‘my life’. Be careful what you put on the canvas of your mind today – it matters.

- Innerspace

79. Art, freedom, and creativity will change society faster than politics.

- Victor Pinchuk

80. I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

81. A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

- Charles Caleb Colton

82. The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

- Carl Ally

83. When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.

- Linda Naiman

84. Written reports stifle creativity.

- H. Ross Perot

85. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

- Victor Hugo

86. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

87. Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

- Steve Wozniak

88. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

- Bertrand Russell

89. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

90. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.

- Dr. Seuss

91. Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

- Virginia Wolfe

92. When I am completely myself, entirely alone during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

93. It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others.

- George Kneller

94. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

- Brené Brown

95. Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

- Eric Hoffer

96. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

97. Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

- William Shatner

98. Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.

- Albert Einstein

99. Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do.

- Neil Degrasse Tyson

100. The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

- Jean Piaget

101. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

- Sylvia Plath

102. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

- Mary Lou Cook

103. Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

- Paulo Coelho

104. Creativity is based on the belief that there’s no particular virtue in doing things they way they’ve always been done.

- Rudolph Flesch

105. Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.

- Marilyn Monroe

106. Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

- Alan Cohen

107. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

- John F. Kennedy

108. Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.

- Edward de Bono

109. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

110. Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

- Gail Sheehy

111. Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

- Albert Einstein

112. All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

113. Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.

- Jonathan Schattke

114. Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

- Donatella Versace

115. When anybody pays you to be creative, you’re very lucky.

- Donald Glover

116. Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

117. Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

- Austin Cleon

118. Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach – how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.

- Osho

119. Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

- Thomas Troward

120. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

- Albert Einstein

121. Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions – if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

- Robert M. Hayes

122. Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

- Leo Burnett

123. There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

- Ray Bradbury

124. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

- Yoko Ono

125. To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

- Bruce Lee

126. In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.

- Austin Kleon

127. There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

128. When you can do a common thing in an uncommon way; you will command the attention of the world.

- George Washington Carver

129. The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

- Edith S?dergran

130. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

- Nnamdi Azikiwe

131. By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

132. Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

- William James

133. Without freedom, there is no creation.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

134. Creativity is just connecting things.

- Steve Jobs

135. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

- Ayn Rand

136. You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

137. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it’s not random.

- Ken Robinson

138. Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

- Sir Joshua Reynolds

139. It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

- Salvador Dali

140. By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

141. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

- John Maynard Keynes

142. Creativity doesn’t need to be a Herculean event. But it does need consistent fostering.

- Carla Johnson

143. The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

144. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

- Charles Brower