My Favorite Quotes on Creativity

Creativity is essential us as humans and especially to those who call ourselves artists. For some this creative flow comes easy, and for others it can be like a needle in a haystack. No matter what part of the creative spectrum you’re on, we can all learn from each other. That’s why I love quotes so much. It’s an accumulation of days, months, or even years of learning smashed into a sentence or two. I’ve collected a few of my favorite creativity quotes below. I hope they help you more deeply understand this wondrous topic called creativity. Enjoy!

“Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.”
- Vida D. Scudder

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
- Eugene Delacroix

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“Creativity is not a talent, it’s a way of operating.”
- John Cleese

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.”
- Pablo Picasso

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ”
- Maya Angelou

“The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity…”
- Marianne Williamson

“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
- Albert Einstein

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
- John Maynard Keynes

“ 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

Michael PerettiJune 19, 2019Quotes

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My Favorite Quotes on Creativity

“Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.”

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”

“Creativity is not a talent, it’s a way of operating.”

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.”

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ”

“The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity…”

“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”

“ 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.”