Inspiring Quotes about Creativity

Creativity is the spark that fuels innovation and drives artistic expression. Dive into a treasure trove of wisdom with quotes about creativity from legendary figures like Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, and Frida Kahlo.

Let these powerful words on creativity motivate you to unleash your imagination and embrace the art of creation.

33 quotes about creativity:

1. “Stop wasting time and do what you were created to do.”

2. “Add creative time into your schedule. Block off your time and make it an unbreakable appointment, just like a doctor's visit or a work meeting.”

3. “The value of achievement lies in the achieving.”

Albert Einstein

4. “Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.”

Oscar Wilde

5. “A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”

Vladimir Nabokov

6. “Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”

Karl Lagerfeld

7. “Take a class in something new. If you've always been a painter, take a writing class.”

8. “What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?”

Robert Hughes

9. “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”

Frida Kahlo

10. “If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it.”

11. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.”

Pablo Picasso

12. “I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own.”

Nikola Tesla

13. “The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

14. “Use your imagination to fill in the blanks.”

Barbara Corcoran

15. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

Ernest Hemingway

16. “The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”

Jackson Pollock

17. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

William James

18. “Give yourself a deadline. While it's nice to wait for inspiration to strike, knowing you need to finish a project can also encourage your brain to work a little harder.”

19. “The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”

Arthur Koestler

20. “The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”

Claude Monet

21. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Albert Einstein

22. “Imagination is an opportunity to put your mind to work – for good.”

Sam Horn

23. “Simplicity and complexity need each other.”

John Maeda

24. “If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

Toni Morrison

25. “Creativity. Passion. Ambition. Inspiration. Kindness. The more of these you can incorporate into your work each day, the better work you'll produce.”

26. “An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”

Irving Stone

27. “The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.”

Natalie Goldberg

28. “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.”

Coco Chanel

29. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

Nikola Tesla

30. “Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”

William Faulkner

31. “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulate the creative mind.”

Albert Einstein

32. “If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”

Franz Kafka

33. “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

Pablo Picasso

Unleash your imagination and tap into your artistic potential with these empowering quotes about creativity. For daily doses of inspiration, download the Motivation App here and keep the creative fire burning bright in your soul.