Top Creativity Quotes

As I create I become.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights.

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.

Set your imagination free and do your best to keep up with it.

The most important thing is to be as attentive and aware as possible, with our senses awakened and our ability to love utterly intact, so that we can exist right here and right now, and enjoy life and...

Done is better than none. You could have all the ideas in the world, but without execution, you will go nowhere.

Wondering is illusion.

In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing.

Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works.

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

Creativity is more important than imagination because it requires action.

Oftentimes at Yale, I'll be sitting around studying or drinking or hanging out when I'll hear one of my friends talk about a project they're doing for a class or a rally they're organizing or a play t...

The beginning of wisdom, I believe, is our ability to accept an inherent messiness in our explanation of what's going on. Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accountin...

Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.