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

"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

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

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"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

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

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"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

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas"

Donatella Versace, Designer

"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

"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

"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"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

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"Written reports stifle creativity"

Ross Perot, Businessman

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

Doug Coupland, Author

"Creativity takes courage"

Henri Matisse, Artist

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

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

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

Bo Bennett, 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 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 the greatest expression of liberty"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"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

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"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 involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"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

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