Quotations: Creativity

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Miles Davis

Is there a job these days that doesn't demand creativity? Thankfully we humans still have an edge on the machines, namely our ability to spot what doesn't already exist and to fill that gap with imagination and flair.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Arthur Koestler

Creativity is a mysterious process, difficult to define. Perhaps it's an ability to free ourselves from habits and assumptions that we hardly notice in ourselves. Perhaps it depends on wide knowledge and experience. Perhaps it can be enticed to visit us if we simply begin to work and trust that answers will present themselves whenever we encounter problems.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

Many artists and writers, scientists and inventors, thinkers and doers have mused on this very subject, and they have much advice and inspiration to offer us when we strive to build that which has never been built before.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

John A. Wheeler

Our selection of the very best quotations on creativity will provide the jolt that keeps your thinking from following obvious paths. There are an infinite number of ideas in the world and they are ours to reap as long as we condition ourselves to notice them.

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