Creativity Quotes

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

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

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

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.