Quotes on Inspire Creativity

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

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

I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

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.

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

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

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

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. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.