Creativity quotes
3.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered."
"Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women."
"Words that do not match deeds are not important."
"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old"
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
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"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."
"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."
"Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye."
"By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them."
"You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life"
"Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency."
"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."
"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity."
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
"The creative adult is the child who has survived."
"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born."
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."
