Creativity Quotes

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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in… — Pablo Picasso
You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic. — Bill Watterson
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo… — Flannery O'Connor
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. — Leonardo da Vinci
If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has… — Natalie Goldberg
Conscience doth make cowards of us all. — William Shakespeare
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had. — David Lynch
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic… — Oscar Wilde
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? — Vincent Van Gogh
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it… — John F. Kennedy
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka
Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. — Douglas Coupland
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by… — Abraham Maslow
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into… — Kurt Vonnegut
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. — Nikola Tesla
Creativity is an act of defiance. — Twyla Tharp
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.… — George Bernard Shaw
To define is to limit. — Oscar Wilde

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