300 Creativity Quotes: Lines to Spark Your Imagination

Creativity & Imagination

Unlock your imagination with these creativity quotes about the spark that starts it all — from Einstein’s wisdom to fresh ways of seeing the world.

1. Creativity is intelligence having fun. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
2. Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein
3. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. — Albert Einstein
4. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
5. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
6. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life‘s coming attractions. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
7. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
8. Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
9. The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein
10. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. — Albert Einstein
11. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
12. Play is the highest form of research. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
13. Creativity is the residue of time wasted. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
14. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
15. Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. — Attributed to Albert Einstein
16. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. — Maya Angelou
17. Creativity takes courage. — Henri Matisse
18. The creative adult is the child who survived. — Ursula K. Le Guin
19. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
20. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. — Erich Fromm
21. An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. — Edwin Land
22. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. — Edwin Land
23. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers
24. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. — William Plomer
25. Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. — Edward de Bono
26. There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. — Edward de Bono
27. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. — Carl Jung
28. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct. — Carl Jung
29. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. — Carl Sagan
30. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. — Attributed to Carl Sagan
31. Imagination rules the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte
32. Imagination is the beginning of creation. — George Bernard Shaw
33. You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’ — George Bernard Shaw
34. The world is but a canvas to our imagination. — Henry David Thoreau
35. Imagination is the voice of daring. — Henry Miller
36. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
37. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. — Anaïs Nin
38. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. — Anaïs Nin
39. To be creative means to be in love with life. — Osho
40. Creativity is the natural order of life. — Julia Cameron
41. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. — Julia Cameron
42. Leap, and the net will appear. — Attributed to John Burroughs
43. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. — Alan Alda
44. Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. — Dee Hock
45. Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. — Donatella Versace
46. A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. — Frank Capra
47. The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
48. Creativity can solve almost any problem. — George Lois
49. Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. — Leo Burnett
50. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Attributed to Sylvia Plath

Art & Artists

From Picasso to da Vinci, these creativity quotes celebrate the artists who showed us how to see the world differently.

1. Every artist was first an amateur. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. — Attributed to Pablo Picasso
3. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. — Pablo Picasso
4. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. — Pablo Picasso
5. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso
6. Action is the foundational key to all success. — Pablo Picasso
7. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. — Pablo Picasso
8. The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense. — Pablo Picasso
9. Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Attributed to Pablo Picasso
10. Good artists copy, great artists steal. — Attributed to Pablo Picasso
11. Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. — Attributed to Pablo Picasso
12. Art is never finished, only abandoned. — Leonardo da Vinci
13. Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. — Leonardo da Vinci
14. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. — Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
15. Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
16. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. — Leonardo da Vinci
17. Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it. — Salvador Dalí
18. A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. — Salvador Dalí
19. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. — Salvador Dalí
20. The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. — Salvador Dalí
21. Don’t think about making art, just get it done. — Andy Warhol
22. In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. — Andy Warhol
23. The idea is not to live forever, but to create something that will. — Attributed to Andy Warhol
24. One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. — Oscar Wilde
25. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. — Oscar Wilde
26. No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde
27. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. — Oscar Wilde
28. Every good painter paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
29. The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. — Jackson Pollock
30. It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. — Jackson Pollock
31. New needs need new techniques. — Jackson Pollock
32. The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. — Jackson Pollock
33. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton
34. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
35. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. — Émile Zola
36. If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. — Émile Zola
37. All art is autobiographical. — Federico Fellini
38. There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. — Federico Fellini
39. You have to live spherically — in many directions. — Federico Fellini
40. A different language is a different vision of life. — Federico Fellini
41. We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents. — Bob Ross
42. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. — Arthur Schopenhauer
43. The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
44. It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to. — Jean-Luc Godard
45. Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. — Jim Jarmusch
46. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take. — T.S. Eliot
47. The expert in anything was once a beginner. — Helen Hayes
48. I don’t paint nature. I am nature. — Attributed to Jackson Pollock
49. Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. — Jackson Pollock
50. The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history. — Robert Rauschenberg

Writing & Ideas

Writers, poets, and thinkers on the magic of ideas — creativity quotes for everyone who works with words.

1. You can make anything by writing. — C.S. Lewis
2. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! — Dr. Seuss
3. Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. — Attributed to Mark Twain
4. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. — Attributed to Mark Twain
5. Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. — Attributed to Mark Twain
6. Don’t let schooling interfere with your education. — Attributed to Mark Twain
7. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. — Attributed to Mark Twain
8. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain
9. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. — Mark Twain
10. The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. — Mark Twain
11. Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain
12. A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. — Robert Frost
13. Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. — Robert Frost
14. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. — Robert Frost
15. The best way out is always through. — Robert Frost
16. Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. — Robert Frost
17. The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. — Robert Frost
18. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. — Steve Jobs
22. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn. — Charles Brower
23. The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
24. If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. — Peter Drucker
25. The best way to predict the future is to create it. — Attributed to Peter Drucker
26. Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. — Marsha Norman
27. Dreams pass into the reality of action. — Anaïs Nin
28. The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. — Anaïs Nin
29. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. — Ursula K. Le Guin
30. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. — Ayn Rand
31. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand
32. If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small. — Attributed to Richard Branson
33. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. — Richard Branson
34. Screw it, let’s do it. — Richard Branson
35. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. — Richard Branson
36. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. — Attributed to Richard Branson
37. When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either. — Leo Burnett
38. Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. — Leo Burnett
39. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Attributed to Mark Twain
40. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain
41. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
42. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain
43. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. — Mark Twain
44. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. — Mark Twain
45. The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow. — Mark Twain
46. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain
47. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. — Attributed to Mark Twain
48. Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. — Attributed to Mark Twain
49. The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. — Attributed to Mark Twain
50. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. — Attributed to Mark Twain

Innovation & Thinking Different

Inventors and rule-breakers on doing things differently — creativity quotes for innovators, makers, and dreamers.

1. Creativity is just connecting things. — Steve Jobs
2. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. — Steve Jobs
3. The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. — Steve Jobs
4. Stay hungry, stay foolish. — Steve Jobs
5. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. — Steve Jobs
6. 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. — Steve Jobs
7. Think different. — Apple
8. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. — Apple
9. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. — Apple
10. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay
11. Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way. — Tom Freston
12. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison
13. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. — Attributed to Thomas Edison
14. If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. — Thomas Edison
15. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. — Thomas Edison
16. There’s a way to do it better — find it. — Thomas Edison
17. The value of an idea lies in the using of it. — Thomas Edison
18. The stone age did not come to an end because the world ran out of stones. — Attributed to Ahmed Zaki Yamani
19. An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. — Ray Kurzweil
20. Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. — Eric Hoffer
21. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. — Eric Hoffer
22. What would you do if you knew you could not fail? — Unknown
23. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
24. All men by nature desire to know. — Aristotle
25. The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
26. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
27. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Attributed to Aristotle
28. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
29. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Attributed to Aristotle
30. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Attributed to Aristotle
31. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
32. The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. — Heraclitus
33. You could not step twice into the same river. — Heraclitus
34. The only constant in life is change. — Heraclitus
35. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. — Pablo Picasso
36. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. — Pablo Picasso
37. Everything you can imagine is real. — Pablo Picasso
38. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso
39. Youth has no age. — Pablo Picasso
40. To draw you must close your eyes and sing. — Pablo Picasso
41. He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. — Pablo Picasso
42. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan. — Pablo Picasso
43. 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 the sun. — Pablo Picasso
44. The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? — Pablo Picasso
45. When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter, and became Picasso. — Pablo Picasso
46. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt
47. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt
48. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. — Theodore Roosevelt
49. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. — Theodore Roosevelt
50. The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. — Theodore Roosevelt

Courage to Create

Creating takes guts. These creativity quotes will give you the courage to start, fail, and try again.

1. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. — Wayne Gretzky
2. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan
3. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. — Michael Jordan
4. Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. — Michael Jordan
5. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. — Michael Jordan
6. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. — Michael Jordan
7. I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. — Michael Jordan
8. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. — Henry Ford
9. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. — Henry Ford
10. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. — Henry Ford
11. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. — Henry Ford
12. Don’t find fault, find a remedy. — Henry Ford
13. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. — Henry Ford
14. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. — Henry Ford
15. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. — Henry Ford
16. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford
17. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. — Henry Ford
18. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. — Henry Ford
19. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. — Henry Ford
20. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. — Attributed to Henry Ford
21. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. — Henry Ford
22. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. — Henry Ford
23. There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. — Henry Ford
24. It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. — Henry Ford
25. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. — Henry Ford
26. The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay. — Zig Ziglar
27. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. — Zig Ziglar
28. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. — Zig Ziglar
29. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar
30. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. — Zig Ziglar
31. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. — Zig Ziglar
32. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. — Zig Ziglar
33. Make today worth remembering. — Zig Ziglar
34. Don’t count the days, make the days count. — Muhammad Ali
35. I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ — Muhammad Ali
36. It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. — Muhammad Ali
37. Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. — Muhammad Ali
38. The man who has no imagination has no wings. — Muhammad Ali
39. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. — Muhammad Ali
40. I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. — Muhammad Ali
41. Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men. — Muhammad Ali
42. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. — Muhammad Ali
43. The will must be stronger than the skill. — Muhammad Ali
44. If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it. — Muhammad Ali
45. Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. — Muhammad Ali
46. Live every day like it’s your last, because someday you’re going to be right. — Attributed to Muhammad Ali
47. Silence is the best answer for all questions. Smiling is the best reaction to all situations. — Unknown
48. The best revenge is massive success. — Frank Sinatra
49. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. — Mae West
50. I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. — Mae West

Short & Powerful Creativity Quotes

Big ideas in few words — short creativity quotes that hit hard and stick with you.

1. Less is more. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
2. God is in the details. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
3. Form follows function. — Louis Sullivan
4. Less, but better. — Dieter Rams
5. Good design is as little design as possible. — Dieter Rams
6. Design is intelligence made visible. — Alina Wheeler
7. Everything is designed. Few things are designed well. — Brian Reed
8. Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style. — Massimo Vignelli
9. The details are not the details. They make the design. — Charles Eames
10. Design is the silent ambassador of your brand. — Paul Rand
11. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. — John Maeda
12. Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
13. What is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
14. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
15. All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
16. Make it work, make it right, make it fast. — Kent Beck
17. Done is better than perfect. — Sheryl Sandberg
18. Move fast and break things. — Mark Zuckerberg
19. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. — Chinese proverb
20. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
21. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. — Confucius
22. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. — Confucius
23. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius
24. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Confucius
25. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. — Attributed to Confucius
26. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. — Attributed to Confucius
27. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. — Attributed to Confucius
28. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius
29. Silence is a true friend who never betrays. — Confucius
30. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. — Confucius
31. To see what is right and not do it is the want of courage. — Confucius
32. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. — Confucius
33. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. — Confucius
34. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. — Attributed to Confucius
35. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. — Confucius
36. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. — Confucius
37. Study the past if you would divine the future. — Confucius
38. The cautious seldom err. — Confucius
39. To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. — Confucius
40. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. — Confucius
41. The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. — Confucius
42. Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. — Confucius
43. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. — Confucius
44. If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? — Confucius
45. The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. — Confucius
46. The object of the superior man is truth. — Confucius
47. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? — Confucius
48. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. — Confucius
49. The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
50. Make it happen. — Unknown

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FAQs About Creativity Quotes

What is the most famous creativity quote?

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein. It’s the most shared of all creativity quotes, from his 1929 interview.

Who said “Creativity is intelligence having fun”?

It’s widely attributed to Albert Einstein, though the exact source is debated — which is why we label it “Attributed to” in our collection above.

What are some short creativity quotes I can remember?

Try “Less is more.” (Mies van der Rohe), “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” (Steve Jobs), or “Creativity takes courage.” (Henri Matisse) — all in our short section.

How can I be more creative every day?

The quotes above agree on three habits: make space to play, don’t fear mistakes, and finish things. As Picasso put it, “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

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