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 | Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 9 likes |
 | I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 6 likes |
 | The modernistic thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 6 likes |
 | I dream my painting and I paint my dream. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 5 likes |
 | To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 5 likes |
 | The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power, and such people get more of a chance under a democracy than elsewhere. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 5 likes |
 | Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 5 likes |
 | It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 4 likes |
| If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
| Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | Creativity is intelligence having fun. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 likes |
 | Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 4 likes |
 | You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 4 likes |
 | The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 4 likes |
 | Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 4 likes |
 | You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 4 likes |
 | There is no science without fancy and no art without fact. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
| Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
| I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | Originality is the art of concealing your sources. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 3 likes |
 | If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 3 likes |
 | Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 3 likes |
| Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
| Making sketches is like planting seeds to grow pictures. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
 | I have made a monument more lasting than bronze. 3 likes |
 | People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 3 likes |
 | It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 2 likes |
| The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
| To draw you must close your eyes and sing. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
| Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
| My hand tells me what I’m thinking. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
 | A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
| The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes |
 | I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
 | How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 2 likes |
| Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 2 likes |
 | That which is creative must create itself. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 2 likes |
| Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
| Caress the detail, the divine detail. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
| I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
| Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
| Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 2 likes |
 | I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect. — Ingmar Bergman, 1918 - 2007, Swedish filmmaker 1 likes |
 | There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. |
 | One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. |
| The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. |
 | I once saw a bee drowned in honey and then I understood. |
 | I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. |
 | Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. |
 | The mind that invents is always dissatisfied with its progress, because it sees beyond. — Jean d’ Alembert, 1717-1783, French mathematician & philosopher |
 | Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. |
| You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. |
| As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things, and build. |
| The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. |
 | Rules and models destroy genius and art. |
 | A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. |
 | Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. |
| If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body – and with it your own voice – and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all. |
 | Originality is the art of concealing your source. |
 | Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting. |
 | You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life. |
| Mistakes are almost always sacred. Never try to correct them. |
| Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends. |
| The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills. |
| Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. |
 | I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm. |
| An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument. |
 | Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. |
 | Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet. |
 | The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction |
 | Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. |
 | A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. |
 | The man with creative imagination, like a poet, must believe in God. Ab Jove principium Musis – the muses begin with Zeus. |
 | He who can create disdains to destroy. |
 | The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. |
 | I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day. |
 | You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. |
 | You can do anything you want. This is your world. |
| Let’s build a happy little cloud. Let’s build some happy little trees. |
| I can’t think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul. |
| Maybe in our world there lives a happy little tree over there. |
Funny Quotes
 | To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. — Wilson Mizner, 1876-1913, American playwright 3 likes |
 | – You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. – What mood is that? – Last-minute panic. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 3 likes |
