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Quotes about Creativity

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
- John W. Gardner, US administrator (1912 - 2002)

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
- Amy Dacyczyn

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

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
- Norman Podhoretz

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
- Cecil B. DeMille, US movie producer (1881 - 1959)

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch

Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.
- Stella Terrill Mann

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
- Michele Shea

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.
- Robin Green

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
- Dee Hock

Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently.
- Eric A. Burns

Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.
- Frank Thomas