39 Short Quotes About Creativity For When You’re Short on Inspiration

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39 Short Quotes About Creativity For When You’re Short on Inspiration

Last Modified: February 26, 2023

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The following is a collection of short quotes about creativity. Hopefully they can act as inspiration when the creative juices aren’t flowing or as signposts when you hit a dead end in a project. Personally, I find switching environments very conducive to inspiring new ideas and starting to connect new dots. Enjoy!

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein

“Without freedom, there is no creation.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
Edward de Bono

“Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction.”
Pablo Picasso

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.”
Maya Angelou

“Creativity is just connecting things.”
Steve Jobs

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.”
Pablo Picasso

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.”
Steve Jobs

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude.”
Rollo May

“True creativity often starts where language ends.”
Arthur Koestler

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
Erich Fromm

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”
John Cleese

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
Leo Burnett

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London

“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
Ursula Leguin

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
Charles Mingus

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
Dr. Seuss

“The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity.”
Dan Stevens

“Ideas come from everything.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
Pablo Picasso

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”Edwin Land

“If it doesn’t sell; it isn’t creative.”
David Ogilvy

“Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.”
Earl Nightingale

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Scott Adams

“Creativity takes courage.”
Henri Matisse

“Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.”
Julia Cameron

“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”Bruce Garrabrandt

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.”
Dorothy Parker

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso

“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”
T. S. Eliot

“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.”
Bill Moyers

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”
Ray Bradbury