Be Creative Quotes

• The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Artist, Creative, Inspire

  Details magazine, 2010.

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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• You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Dance, Love Life

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• No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

  John Cassavetes

  Inspirational, Children, Creativity

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• Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Creativity, Hands

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• If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

  John Cleese

  Teamwork, Fun, Business

  "Best New Games" by Dale N. LeFevre, (p. 9), 2002.

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Children, Playing Games, Self

  Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.73, Psychology Press

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• Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Creativity, Creative, Piercings

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

  John Updike

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House

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• Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

  Bill Gates

  Creativity, People, Creative

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Next Move

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

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• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Dance, Learning

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.77, Basic Books

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• I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Creativity

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 1' (plate 10, l. 20)

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

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Long, Creative

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

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• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Creativity, Hands, Creative

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  Antony Jay

  Inspirational, Educational, Creativity

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

  "Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1942.

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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