Creative - Creativity Quotes

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.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Creative individuals are also remarkably humble and proud at the same time. It is remarkable to meet a famous person whom you expect to be arrogant or supercilious, only to encounter self-deprecation and shyness instead. Yet there are good reasons why this should be so. In the first place, these individuals are well aware that […]

Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

The idea of hidden creativity is a delusion, like talk of ‘mute, inglorious Miltons.’ If there is any genuine creativity it will assert itself early in life, and if someone is mute and inglorious it is foolish to call him a Milton. If you are prepared to put up with that sort of nonsense, I […]