Creativity Quotes

"To be creative means to be in love with life."

"My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of healthy, self-actualizing, fully human persons are very closely interrelated."

"To understand creativity, we must abandon the tendency to think of it as a rare, hermitic, aristocratic sort of attribute."

"The creative impulse is present in every human being."

"Play is the answer to how anything new comes into the world."

"The environment in which we live should be rich in aspects that spontaneously invite activity."

"Curiosity is the engine of human development."

"The child constructs a model of the world through playful experimentation."

"Creativity is the antidote to a conformist society."

"Creativity cannot be forced—it flows from authenticity."

"To be fully alive means to be creative and to express oneself authentically."

"The creative spirit flourishes when we reject the artificial constraints of institutional thinking."

"The mind is a meaning-making machine."

"We construct narratives to explain our behaviors."

"The desire to create is one of the deepest urges of the human soul."

"True creativity comes from authenticity, not from conformity to what others expect of you."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction of the old to make way for the new."

"I have learned that creativity emerges when we release our need to control outcomes."

"I have learned that the most creative solutions emerge from groups where all voices are valued."

"I have observed that creativity flourishes when we give ourselves permission to be imperfect."

"I believe that we are all artists of our own lives, though many never claim the brush."

"Imagination without empirical foundation is merely fantasy; creativity requires evidence."

"We underestimate the power of symbols, uniforms, and language in creating psychological realities."

"Our mind is more creative in justification than in creation itself."

"Real creativity involves real risk and the possibility of real failure."

"The unconscious mind is the creative mind; the conscious mind is the critical mind."

"Creativity is the discovery of new meaning in life."

"Creativity flourishes when we give ourselves permission to fail without shame."

"Innovation comes from understanding how behavior actually works."

"The creative mind is one conditioned for novel responses."