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Unlocking Imagination: 92 Quotes on the Power of Creativity

Creativity is like a spark that lights up our world. It’s the magic that turns ordinary things into something extraordinary. From artists to inventors, everyone has a bit of creativity inside them, waiting to be set free.

In this collection of creativity quotes, we’ll explore nuggets of wisdom from those who have dared to dream big and create even bigger. These quotes are like little gems of encouragement, reminding us that our imagination knows no bounds.

Join us on this journey through words that celebrate the beauty of making something new. They’re not just quotes; they’re whispers of inspiration for the creative soul in all of us.

  1. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. -Pablo Picasso
  2. The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.- Joan Miró
  3. He who would be a man must therefore be a nonconformist.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  4. The most talented, thought-provoking, game-changing people are never normal.- Richard Branson
  5. If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things. -Larry Page

 

  1. Create with the heart; build with the mind.- Criss Jami

 

  1. Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. -Jack Kerouac

 

  1. The most dangerous idea is silencing people. -Naval Ravikant

 

  1. Originality is the best form of rebellion.- Mike Sasso

 

  1. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. -Brené Brown

 

 

  1. The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. -Neil Gaiman
  2. Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. -Victor Pinchuk

 

  1. Creativity is obscured by the conscious mind.- Naval Ravikant

 

  1. There is intelligence when you are not afraid.- Bruce Lee

 

  1. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. -John Stuart Mill

 

  1. If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. -Pablo Picasso

 

  1. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -Maya Angelou

 

  1. The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.- James Baldwin

 

  1. We adore chaos because we love to produce order.- M. C. Escher

 

  1. If it doesn’t sell; it isn’t creative. -David Ogilvy

 

  1. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.- Gustave Flaubert

 

  1. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. -Oscar Wilde

 

  1. When you can do a common thing in an uncommon way; you will command the attention of the world.- George Washington Carver

 

  1. Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.- Vincent van Gogh

 

 

  1. The important thing for you is to be alert, to question, to find out, so that your own initiative may be awakened.- Bruce Lee

 

  1. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.- E. E. Cummings

 

  1. A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world. If you want to be able to do great things, whether you’re a musician, or whether you’re an entrepreneur, or whether you’re an investor, you need free time and you need a free mind. -Naval Ravikant

 

  1. Intelligence uses what is known to solve problems. Creativity uses what is unknown to discover possibilities.- Simon Sinek

 

  1. I shut my eyes in order to see. -Paul Gauguin

 

  1. Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity. -Mahershala Ali

 

  1. When we build, let us think that we build forever. -John Ruskin

 

  1. It may be that our cosmic curiosity is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder. -Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

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

 

  1. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. -Rainer Maria Rilke
  2. Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.- Leo Tolstoy

 

  1. The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. -Claude Monet

 

  1. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.- Carl Sagan

 

  1. If you’re to create something powerful and important, you must at the very least be driven by an equally powerful inner force.- Ryan Holiday

 

  1. The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. -Auguste Rodin

 

  1. Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. -Karl Lagerfeld

 

  1. The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. -Martin Luther King Jr

 

  1. Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done. -Austin Kleon

 

  1. When I am completely myself, entirely alone during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. -Mozart
  2. For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. -Jean Dubuffet

 

  1. The question isn’t who is going to let me; It’s who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand

 

  1. Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.- Georgia O’Keeffe

 

  1. The ability to see order in chaos is called creativity.- Simon Sinek

 

  1. If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.- Vincent van Gogh

 

 

  1. Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.- Andy Warhol

 

  1. The less scheduled you are, the more creative you’re going to be. -Naval Ravikant

 

  1. Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. -Michelangelo
  2. Creativity takes courage.- Henri Matisse

 

  1. To be an artist is to believe in life. -Henry Moore

 

  1. The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. -G.K. Chesterton

 

  1. The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. -Mikhail Bakunin

 

  1. Good art inspires; Good design motivates. -Otl Aicher

 

  1. Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.- Chuck Close

 

  1. When all think alike, then no one is thinking. -Walter Lippman

 

  1. Without freedom, there is no creation.- Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

  1. My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift. -J. Tillman

 

  1. If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. -Peter F. Drucker

 

  1. Imitation is suicide.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

  1. Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. -Austin Kleon

 

  1. Creativity is as important as literacy. -Ken Robinson

 

  1. Replace fear with curiosity. -Steven Spielberg

 

  1. Ideas come from everything.- Alfred Hitchcock

 

  1. It’s harder to create than to destroy. -Angela Jiang

 

  1. Creativity increases when you have peace. -Aaron Aalto

 

  1. Everything is interesting. Look closer. -Unknown

 

  1. I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline. -Duke Ellington

 

  1. It’s no accident that AHA and HAHA are spelled almost the same way.- Mitch Ditkoff

 

  1. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -John Steinbeck

 

  1. I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. Gilda Radner

 

  1. Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question. -Austin Kleon

 

  1. Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore.- Wavy Gravy

 

  1. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny!’. -Isaac Asimov

 

  1. The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones. – Unknown

 

  1. There’s a way to do it better – find it. -Thomas A. Edison

 

  1. There are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. -Thomas A. Edison

 

  1. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.- Thomas A. Edison

 

 

  1. Logic will get you from a to b. Imagination will take you everywhere.- Albert Einstein

 

  1. I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking .-Albert Einstein

 

  1. The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working. -Albert Einstein

 

  1. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. -Steve Jobs

 

  1. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.- Steve Jobs

 

  1. The people who made Mac are sort of on the edge. -Steve Jobs

 

 

  1. Why fit in when you were born to stand out? -Dr. Seuss

 

  1. Think left and think right, and think low and think high; Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.- Dr. Seuss

 

  1. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. -Dr. Seuss

 

 

  1. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. -Pablo Picasso

 

  1. Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. -Pablo Picasso

 

  1. Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. -Picasso

 

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