Creative Ideas Quotes:

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Fashion, Art, Writing, Inspiration And Creativity, Creative Artists

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. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Creativity, People, Unique Experiences, Creative People

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Success, Business, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Couple, Innovation And Business, Inspirational And Innovation

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Creativity, Thinking, Self, Amazing Things, Creative People

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

- Leo Burnett

source: Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

topic: Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking, Creative People, Innovation Inspiration

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

- John Maynard Keynes

source: "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

topic: Education, Lying, Escaping, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Art, Creativity, Cat, Creative People, Creative Ideas

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

- Robert Henri

topic: Inspiring, Art, Creativity, Inspirational Art, Creative Artists

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Inspirational Education

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

topic: Life, Beautiful, Faith, Jumping In, Jumping Off

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

- Walt Disney

source: "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

topic: Moving Forward, Long, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity, Just Keep Moving

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.

- Rajneesh

topic: Life, Dance, Mean, Creative People, Art And Creativity

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Inspiring, Teacher, Learning, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

- Carl Ally

topic: Bad Ass, Years, Ideas, Inspiration And Creativity, Inspiration And Innovation

After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

topic: Order, Years, Ideas, Innovative Ideas, Power Of Ideas

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

- Konosuke Matsushita

topic: Ideas, Notes, Worthy, Brainstorming, Lateral Thinking

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

- Donatella Versace

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, Creativity, Bad Ass, Inspire Creativity, Conflicting Ideas

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

topic: Inspiring, Wisdom, Art, Creative Artists, Creative Art

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

- Walt Disney

source: "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

topic: Life, Moving On, Moving Forward, Many Paths, Inspiration And Creativity

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

- Barbara Januszkiewicz

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Creative, Creative Ideas, Creative Thinking

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inner Voice, Improve Self Esteem

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Life, Confidence, Believe, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Business, Creativity, Bad Ass, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

- Jack London

source: Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Funny, Witty, Life Changing, Creativeness, Creative People

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Creative People, Creative Artists

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Creativity, Thinking, Creative, Creative People, Creative Artists

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Witty, Writing, Inspire Creativity, Big Ideas

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Business, Making A Living, Life Is Simple

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Success, Ideas, Mediocre Minds, Believe In Your Dreams

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

- Christina Rossetti

source: Christina Georgina Rossetti, Maria Keaton (2004). “Prose Works of Christina Rossetti”, Thoemmes Pr

topic: Work, Unfinished, Creative Artists, Creative Ideas, Unfinished Work

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity, Amazing Things, Creative People

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Trust, Trust Your Instincts, Inspire Creativity

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

- Andy Warhol

source: Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

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.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Creativity, People, Creative, Unique Experiences, Creative People

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

- John Cage

source: "From mundane to marvellous: Darren Fletcher's startling transformation" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Art, Creativeness, Creative People

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Life, Sad, Creativity, Self-doubt, Improvising

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

- Wilbur Smith

source: "Wilbur Smith: is this the book deal of the century?". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

topic: Spring, Ideas, Creative, Creative Ideas

They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three CEOs - it takes one guy with an idea.

- Joe Grant

topic: Ideas, Creative, Guy, Creative Ideas

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

- Martha Stewart

source: Martha Stewart (2006). “The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business”, p.24, Rodale

topic: Ideas, People, Creative, Creative Ideas

Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.

- John Friend

topic: Couple, Communication, Ideas, Creative Ideas, True Intimacy