Quotes on Creativity

What is Creativity ?
Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby something new is created which has some kind of subjective value (such as an idea, a joke, a literary work, a painting or musical composition, a solution, an invention etc.). It is also the qualitative impetus behind any given act of creation, and it is generally perceived to be associated with intelligence and cognition.

Well here are some of the famous quotes on creativity.

“ Creativity takes courage.”
― Henri Matisse

“ Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” —James Russell Lowell

“ Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.”
— Rita Mae Brown

“ A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand

“ 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. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.” —Steve Jobs

“ Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.”
— Dee Hock
 “ Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.”
— Scott Belsky
 “ Imagination rules the world.”
— Napoleon
 “ Creative without strategy is called ‘art’. Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising’.” — Jef I. Richards
     “ To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.” — Thomas Edison
 “ Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. ”
— Theodore Levitt
 
“ Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” -- Scott Adams, cartoonist
 “ The whole difference between construction and creation is this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
 — Charles Dickens, author

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

 “ Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney

“ You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw


“ 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

“ The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” – Albert Einstein

“ Creativity is intelligence having fun ”– Albert Einstein
 
“ Creativity is contagious. Pass it on ” – Albert Einstein

“ Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” — Theodore Levitt 

“ God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.” — Pablo Picasso 

“ Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.” — Erich Fromm

“ Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” — George Lois