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I will master something, then the creativity will come.
-Japanese Proverb
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If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
-Scott Adams
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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
-Scott Adams
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"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar."
-Nnamdi Azikiwe
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"An inventor a man who looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world."
-Alexander Graham Bell
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
-Warren Bennis
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"We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
-Ray Bradbury
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"I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,
which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.
It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind."
-Jacob Bronowski, "Science and Human Values" (Ch.2 - The Habit of Truth)
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"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
-Rita Mae Brown
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
-Pearl Buck
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"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
-Frank Capra
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
-Coco Chanel
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The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
-Miles Davis
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"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose."
-Charles Du Bos, What Is Literature?
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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-Albert Einstein
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"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
-Anna Freud
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"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
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"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."
-John W. Gardner
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
-Daisaku Ikeda
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"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 Gustav Jung
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything."
-George Lois
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"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form."
-Stephen Nachmanovitch
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"The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. "
-Stephen Nachmanovitch
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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
-José Ortega y Gasset
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"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
-Joseph Chilton Pearce
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"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."
-Norman Podhoretz
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As the rain falling out of the clouds becomes the life origin for plants, so the stream of creativeness becomes the source of life for a man. Let us feel the pulse of a creative spirit within a man, which sustains his or her vitality, for it, is the only way for one to join the river of eternity. As this truth submerges a man in joy like the sunrays, he or she feels incredibly happy. The spirit of creativity like a stream flowing in a man and watering a dry land of his or her soul, refreshing it and awakening up new forces – a creation of action. It seems that time and eternity merge within a man. Let us aim at awakening within ourselves this state producing success and desire for harmony.
-Augustinas Rakauskas, Spirit of Entrepreneurship
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
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After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.
-H P (Henry Peach) Robinson, The Elements of a Pictorial Photograph, 1896
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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
-Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person
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"You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you."
-Edward Steichen, Wisdom
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"Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it."
-Charles Chic Thompson
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"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."
-John Updike
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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
-Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar, 1989
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We will not know unless we begin.
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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Books about Creativity
