creativity quotes

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

“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

“The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.”

— Pablo Picasso

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

— Albert Einstein

“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

“A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general. ”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I try to stay focused on my creativity. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!”

— Mitt Romney

“I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.”

— Henry Rollins

“I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I go wherever my creativity takes me.”

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

— James Russell Lowell

“Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.”

— Earl Nightingale