All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso

Another word for creativity is courage.
-- George Prince

Be brave enough to live creatively. 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. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
-- Alan Alda

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
-- Rita Mae Brown

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
-- Edward de Bono

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
-- Cecil B. DeMille

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
-- Arthur Koestler

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

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

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
-- Thomas Disch

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
-- William Plomer

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
-- Julia Cameron

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
-- Mae Jemison

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

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
-- Bo Bennett

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
-- Louise Nevelson

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
-- Barthold Georg Niebuhr

It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.
-- Gordon Mackenzie

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-- A. A. Milne

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.
-- Joseph Badaracco

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
-- Tina Turner

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
-- George J. Seidel

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

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

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
-- Dee Hock

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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 G. Bennis

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
-- Tori Amos

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
-- R. I. Fitzhenry

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Fuller

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!
-- Peter McWilliams

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.-- Madeleine L'Engle

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
-- Albert Einstein

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

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