Creativity Quote by Arthur Koestler

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

— Arthur Koestler

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

— Anonymous

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

— Andre Malraux

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

— James Russell Lowell

“What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity, that's what I think, while change on the other hand, is the cornerstone of new…

— Diane Keaton

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of…

— Adolf Hitler

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

— V. S. Pritchett

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which…

— Joshua Reynolds

Genius is fostered by industry.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

— Hans Hofmann

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or…

— June Jordan

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Madame de Stael