Quotes about creativity

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

Someone once said to me that anyone can draw. I didn’t really believe it at the time and I’m still not entirely convinced but what I do know is that if we feel creative we shouldn’t allow fear of failure to stop us. Creativity isn’t just about drawing either; blog writing is a creative pursuit, as is baking, woodwork and inventing things to name just a few. Everyone has a creativity of some description inside them somewhere, maybe we just need to let it out?

‘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

‘If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced’ – Vincent van Gogh

‘I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way’ – Georgia O’Keeffe

‘Creativity is contagious. Pass it on’ – Albert Einstein

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

‘Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought’ – Albert Einstein

‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep’ – Scott Adams

‘Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it’ – Salvador Dali

‘Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself’ – George Bernard Shaw

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

‘Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going. It is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that made some futures more probable and others less likely’ – Ian Lowe

‘The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears’ – Dan Stevens

‘To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it’ – Osho

Finally one for the bloggers and aspiring bloggers out there! ‘And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt’ – Sylvia Plath

Until next time xx