Creativity Quotes

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
Albert Einstein

“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”
Albert Einstein

“Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
Albert Einstein

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Albert Einstein

“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
Arthur Koestler

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
Beatrix Potter

“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
Buckminster Fuller

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
Buckminster Fuller

“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.”
Carl Sagan

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
Carl Sagan

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono

“Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.”
Edwin Land

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
Erich Fromm

“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.”
Erich Fromm

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it’s a stinking way to create.”
Lillian Hellman

“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
Linus Pauling

“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
Marie Antoinette

“Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.”
Niels Bohr

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Pablo Picasso

“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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