Creativity Quotes: Inspiring Words to Ignite Your Imagination

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience"

Masaru Ibuka, Businessman

"Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas"

Donatella Versace, Designer

"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something"

Frank Capra, Director

"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychologist

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected"

William Plomer, Writer

"There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality"

Julian Lennon, Musician

"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Written reports stifle creativity"

Ross Perot, Businessman

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

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Creativity takes courage"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal"

Doug Coupland, Author

"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

David Byrne, Musician

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"War comes from our being immature, fearful, and injured, and not being able to conceive of other ways of solving problems. It comes from an immature style of thinking where creativity and overview is scarce"

Patricia Sun, Author

"The biggest enemy of creativity is self-doubt"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

"The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"Trying to force creativity is never good"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity"

Mark Udall, Politician

"I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster"

Al Gore, Vice President

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