Creative Person Quotes:

A creative person has to #‎ create .

- Katherine Dunham

topic: Creative, Persons, Creative Person

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

- Charles Mingus

topic: Creativity, Simple, Carpe Diem, Creativeness, Creative People

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

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

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

- Tori Amos

topic: Creativity, Creative, Trying, Art And Creativity, Creative Person

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

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections

- John Lennon

topic: Inspirational, Love Yourself, Things In Life, Fearlessness, Fear Of Love

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Hands, Long, Matter, Leaving A Legacy, Creative Person

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

- Rollo May

topic: Inspirational, Quiet People, Being Alone, Creative Person, Being Quiet

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

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

topic: Art, Integrity, Creativity, Creative Person

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

- Andy Warhol

source: Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

topic: Art, Hate, Creativity, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

- Magdalena Abakanowicz

topic: Dream, Art, Struggle, Creative Person, Astonishing

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

- Ray Bradbury

source: "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.

topic: Children, Wall, Flower, Creative People, My Grandfather

Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path... You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Heart, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Don't think about making art.

- Andy Warhol

source: Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Real, Cutting, Men, Leaving A Legacy, Creative Person

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

source: "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 412), 2006.

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Cutting, Brainstorming, Lateral Thinking

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

- Vincent Van Gogh

source: Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Life, Strength, Fine Arts, Souls In Love

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

- John Lennon

source: "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

topic: Love, Life, Marriage, Learn To Love Yourself, Fearlessness

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspiration And Life, Inspiration And Motivation

Be a giver. Share whatsoever you can. And remember, I am not making any distinction between. small things and great things. If you can smile whole-heartedly, hold somebody's hand and smile, then it is a creative act, a great creative act. Just embrace somebody to your heart and you are creative. Just look with loving eyes at somebody; just a loving look can change the whole world of a person.

- Rajneesh

topic: Heart, Eye, Hands, Loving Eyes, Creative Person

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

- Neil Gaiman

source: Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Mistake, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Creativity, Forever, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

- Gerald Jampolsky

topic: Inspirational Life, Self, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity, Creative Imagination

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

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Dance, Teamwork, Motivation, Creativeness, Creative People

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

- Lou Dorfsman

topic: Beautiful, Lonely, Art, Creative People, Creative Person

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

- Frank Barron

topic: Carpe Diem, Average, Creative, Creative Person, Imagination Creativity

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

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Enough, Willing, Making A Difference In The World, Just Being You, Knowing And Doing

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

- Theodore Levitt

topic: Change, Creativity, Thinking, Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration

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

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

topic: Art, Book, Writing, Positive Thoughts, Inspiration And Creativity

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

- Steven Pressfield

topic: Art, Selfish, Creativity, Creative Person, Artists And Creativity

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

topic: Motivational, Spiritual, Art, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Mistake, Inspirational Graduation, Inspire Students