Creativity Quotes

“To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.”

“When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.”

“I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.”

"Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' and then do it."

Duane Michals

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

"Learning gives creativity, creativity leads to thinking, thinking provides knowledge, knowledge makes you great."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Virginia Woolf

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

Toni Morrison

"You have to write the book that wants to be written."

Madeleine L'Engle

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

Pablo Picasso

"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

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

Stephen King

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

Chuck Close

"Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe."

Deepak Chopra

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Pablo Picasso

"Make good art."

Neil Gaiman

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

Pablo Picasso

"The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."

"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."

John Lasseter

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

Charles Mingus

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

Albert Einstein

"The end-product of education should be a free creative man, who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities of nature."

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model."

"Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same status."

Sir Ken Robinson