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I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

— Criss Jami

The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint.…

— David Droga

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

— Frank Barron

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

— Janice Tanton

Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had…

— Ellis Paul Torrance

The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other…

— Roger von Oech

Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity.

— Lee Clow

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

— Milton H. Erickson

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in…

— Anthony Storr

“Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching…

— Haruki Murakami