The Power of Thinking Differently

Read creativity quotes to inspire you to building a creative approach or to find motivation for your creativity.

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
Charles Mingus

“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.”
Jean Piaget

“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
 
Carl Jung

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Scott Adams

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.“
Albert Einstein

“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”
Tina Turner

“Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
William James

“It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more [...]

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
Virginia Woolf

“A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.”
Theodore Adorno