Creative - Creativity Quotes

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. (“Dilbert”)

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. […]

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

In all cultures, men are brought up to be “masculine” and to disregard and repress those aspects of their temperament that the culture regards as “feminine,” whereas women are expected to do the opposite. Creative individuals to a certain extent escape this rigid gender role stereotyping. When tests of masculinity/femininity are given to young people, […]

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives… most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity… (and) when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.