Explore Quotes on Creativity

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

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.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.

I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.

In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

The opposite of creativity is cynicism

The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.