100 Creativity Quotes About Expressing Your Real Self

These creativity quotes from artists, writers, musicians, and superstars will inspire you to tap into your own creative energy.

Creativity can be defined as the ability to use our imagination and unique ideas to make something.

It is a habit of life that comes in many different forms.

Creativity is one of the most important traits we possess as human beings.

It is because of creativity that we can achieve success in life.

When we encounter challenges and obstacles, our creativity allows us to see the hidden opportunities in them.

Every one of us is creative.

In fact, we are all born creative and use our innovativeness and imagination to negotiate life.

But due to self-doubt and other limiting thoughts, we sometimes find it difficult to express who we truly are.

When you feel like you’re stuck and that you’re not good enough, reading some words of inspiration can get your creative juices flowing again.

Here are some powerful creativity quotes that will awaken your imagination and inspire you to be true to yourself and your dreams.

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Creativity Quotes About Expressing Your Real Self

1. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

2. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” ~Erich Fromm

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3. “Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.” ~ Julia Cameron

4. “Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

5. “Creativity comes from trust. trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” – Rita Mae Brown

6. “I’m experimental by nature… always exploring my creativity. – Christina Aguilera

7. “If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.” – Pablo Picasso

8. “The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.” – Twyla Tharp

9. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath

10. “Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.” – Dee Hock

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11. “Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” – Dorothy Parker

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12. “Creative isn’t the way I think, it’s the way I like to live.” – Paul Sandip

13. “Creativity requires input, and that’s what research is. You’re gathering material with which to build.” – Gene Luen Yang

14. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

15. “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas” – Donatella Versace

16. “The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.” – Bob Iger

17. “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso

18. “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” – William Plomer

19. “Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.” – Eric Hoffer

20. “Creativity is nothing but a mind set free.” –Torrie T. Asai

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21. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ~Pablo Picasso

22. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ~Scott Adams

23. “The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.” – Deepak Chopra

24. Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

25. “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

26. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”– Vincent van Gogh

27. “Creativity is nothing but the way to solve new problems.” – Diana Santos

28. “Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.” – Ed Mc Cabe

29. ” Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” – Martin Luther King

30. “You don’t have to be ‘a creative’ to be creative.” –Droby Ben-Menachem

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31. “Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.” ~Mason Cooley

32. “Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing.” ~Edward de Bono

33. “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

34. “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without” – Cecil B. DeMille

35. “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

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36. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” – Brené Brown

37. “The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau

38. “Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”– Bruce Garrabrandt

39. “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur Clarke

40. “Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.” – Masaru Ibuka

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41. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein

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42. “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook

43. “Creativity is breaking out of established patterns to look at things in a different way.” ~ Edward de Bono

44. “The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.” – Ananda Coomaraswamy

45. “Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” ~ Charles Mingus

46. “Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein

47. “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club” – Jack London

48. “Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.” – Naomi Judd

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49. “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”– John Cleese

50. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

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51. “To be creative means to be in love with life.” ~ Osho

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52. “The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right doing.” – Angeles Arrien

53. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

54. “Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.” – Debbie Ford

55. “Almost all creativity requires purposeful play.” – Abraham Maslow

56. “Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.” – Victor Pinchuk

57. “Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.”- Brene Brown

58. “My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.” –  J. Tillman

59. “I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.” – Gilda Radner

60. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”– Henry David Thoreau

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61. “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” – C.E.M. Joad

62. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

63. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

64. “What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.” – Deepak Chopra

65. “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

66. “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” – Marshall McLuhan

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67. “Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.” – Alan Alda

68. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.” – Karl Lagerfeld

69. “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” – George Lois

70. “Creativity is a gift. It doesn’t come through if the air is cluttered.” – John Lennon

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71. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” ― Rumi

72. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” ― Henry Thomas Buckle

73. “Doors are for people with no imagination.” ― Derek Landy

74. “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time.” ― Lady Gaga

75. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

76. “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

77. “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.” ― Mikhail Bakunin

78. “There is creative reading as well as creative writing.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

79. “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” ― Sophia Loren

80. “People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.” ― Karl Lagerfeld

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81. “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” — Edwin Land

82. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” — Albert Einstein

83.  “When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.” — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

84. “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 

85. “Creativity is… seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring into being and that way be a playmate with God.” — Michele Shea 

86.  “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.” — Abe Tannenbaum

87. “Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.” — Nolan Bushnell 

88. “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 isn’t.” — Tori Amos

89.  “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.” — Mary Shelley

90. “True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse.’” — Arthur Rimbaud

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91. “My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” ― Miles Davis

92. “One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.” ― Peter McWilliams

93. “Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.” ― Ken Robinson

94. “The creative mind plays with the object it loves.” ― Carl Jung

95. “When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.” ― Ernest Holmes

96. “Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

97. “Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” ― Anna Freud

98. “Creativity exists in the present moment. You can’t find it anywhere else.” ― Natalie Goldberg

99. “Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” ― Sir Ken Robinson

100. “Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” ― Robert Foster Bennett

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Creativity is crucial if you want to succeed in life.

Although many people may not realize it, all of us are born with massive creativity.

It’s upon you to cultivate it to discover the endless opportunities around you.

We all have a wellspring of creative energy within us.

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