Creative Quotes, Part 1

These are some of my favorite quotes about creativity and the creative process:
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“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.” 
― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity


“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” 
― Albert Einstein

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ” 
― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

“Creativity takes courage. ” 
― Henri Matisse

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun” 
― Pablo Picasso

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

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.” 
― Albert Einstein

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” 
― Scott Adams

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one” 
― Stella Adler

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” 
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” 
― Erich Fromm

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.” 
― Pablo Picasso

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.” 
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ” 
― Ernest Hemingway

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” 
― George Bernard Shaw

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” 
― Osho

“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.” 
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions” 
― Leonardo da Vinci

“When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.” 
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Creativity is as important as literacy” 
― Ken Robinson

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.” 
― Aberjhani, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real. ” 
― Robert Fanney



I am always looking for new quotes, keep checking back for more!


Many of the quotes above are from Pablo Picasso, a truly innovative artist. Check out https://www.artsy.net/artist/pablo-picasso to learn more about Picasso and his work.