Creativity Quotes

"The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it."

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways."

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

"We have to be continually jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work."

"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."

"If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society."

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

"The creative adult is the child who survived."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again."

"Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits."

"Creativity takes courage."

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

"A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life."

"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."

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

"Make good art. I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something."

"We find meaning in three ways: by creating a work, by experiencing something or someone, or by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering."

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"Innovation comes from people meeting in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea."

"Focus on the process, not the outcome."

"To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular."

"The best way to be a perennial seller is to make something that is actually good."