Creative Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis

“Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.”
– NNAMDI AZIKIWE

“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.”
– Nolan Bushnell

“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on … the disciplined adult intelligence.
– NORMAN PODHORETZ

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
– Norman Vincent Peale

“It’s always too early to quit.
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
– Og Mandino

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
– Oscar Wilde

“Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach – how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.”
– Osho

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
– Osho

“You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is!”
– Osho

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up”
– Pablo Picasso

“God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working”
– Pablo Picasso

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense”
– Pablo Picasso

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
– Peter Marshall

“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“Life is trying things to see if they work.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.”
– RAY KROC

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts”
– Rita Mae Brown

“Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions – if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.”
– Robert M. Hayes

“It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.”
– Roger von Oech

“Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.”
– RON CARTER

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it”
– Salvador Dali

“Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
– SCOTT ADAMS

“We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other’s people’s models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.”
– Shakti Gawain

“Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.”
– Sir Joshua Reynolds

“One of my early mentors, poet David Wagoner, who divides the creative process into three phases – madman, poet and critic – once told me that you need to find your own magic to stay in the world of creative play.”
– Sonia Gernes

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