Quotes on Creativity

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

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.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

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

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

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.

Success is on the far side of failure.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.