4,594 Quotes About Creativity

Untamed thinking turns your life into a new art form. Dare to be an artist.

Sometimes imagination outsmarts intelligence and enthusiasm outshines experience.

Novel writing, I’ve discovered, is the most liberating. You can write the narrative in the past, present, or future, and from virtually any viewpoint or philosophy, including your own. The only keeper you answer to is your own creativity. It’s total autonomy.

Remember, creativity is like a compass, each one has its own, and each one points to a different North.

Kreativität muss gar nichts. Kreativität DARF. Vor allem, in alle Richtungen.

Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

A lack of imagination could be as crippling for the spirit as any poverty.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.