My favourite quotes on creativity

Creativity means different things to different people. Here are a few popular definitions of creativity.

• Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties: Gail Sheehy
• Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun: Mary Lou Cook
• Creativity (or “creativeness”) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity

And here is how i define creativity: ‘Creativity is the ability to think of something for the first time’. How do you define creativity?

Here are my favourite quotes on creativity. Please share your favourites in the comments section below.

There is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Thomas Disch

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Pablo Picasso

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Jean Piaget

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers

Jean Caldwell

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.

George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Ursula K. LeGuin

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Rita Mae Brown

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

John W. Gardner

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Mary-Claire King

There are two keys to being creatively productive. One is not being daunted by one’s fear of failure. the second is sheer perseverance.

Abe Tannenbaum

The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.

Linus Pauling

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.