35 Best Quotes About Creativity To Inspire Employees

Creativity is a beautiful thing, but the actual process of producing something fresh and exciting is a difficult task. As employers and employees, we spend a lot of time thinking about creativity and the problems and challenges that the future of work will bring to our profession.

How exactly are we going to be creative?

Which activities, factors, and behaviors will drive creativity?

Why is workplace creativity important for employee engagement?

When your job depends on being innovative on a routine basis, you're likely to think about things like these very frequently. Thankfully, many of the inventors and bright minds we admire have been sharing their ideas on these matters for decades.

For help, I have collected a few wise words from these legends, which are enlightening and seem helpful. As we all know, quotes are a source of constant inspiration. Be it at our office desk or our at-home workstation, we can use of these quotes to keep bettering ourselves while working.

Here are some of the most inspiring quotes about creativity, which I'd like to share with you.

35 Best Quotes About Creativity To Inspire Employees

1. Charles Mingus

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

2. Leo Burnett

A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.

3. Nancy Andreasen

Creative people are better at recognizing relationships, making associations and connections, and seeing things in an original way—seeing things that others cannot see… Having too many ideas can be dangerous. Part of what comes with seeing connections no one else sees is that not all of these connections actually exist.

4. Steve Jobs

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that because they've had more experiences or have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

5. Edward de Bono

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.

6. Edward de Bono

It is no longer inspiration or being creatively talented. Anyone can be creative – provided they learn and develop their skills.

7. Ray Bradbury

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

8. Ray Bradbury

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

9. George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

10. Osho

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.

11. Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

12. Scott Adams

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

13. Dr. Seuss

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.

14. Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

15. Vincent van Gogh

If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

16. Richard Florida

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

17. Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

18. Linda Naiman

Creativity is the power to create something new, to reach deep into our subconscious for that “aha” solution. Sometimes it happens in a nanosecond, and sometimes that solution can take a lifetime to reveal itself.

19. Linda Naiman

For innovation to flourish, organizations must create an environment that fosters creativity; bringing together multi-talented groups of people who work in close collaboration together — exchanging knowledge, ideas and shaping the future direction.

20. Maya Angelou

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

21. Miles Davis

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

22. Brene Brown

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

23. Neil Gaiman

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

24. Bruce Garrabrandt

Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.

25. Mary Lou Cook

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking the rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

26. Arthur Ashe

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

27. Paulo Coelho

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

28. Napoleon Hill

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

29. Tom Wolfe

Put your good where it will do the most.

30. John Steinbeck

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon, you have a dozen.

31. John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

32. Sylvia Plath

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.

33. Scarlett Thomas

Routine kills creative thought.

34. Pablo Picasso

Everything you imagine is real.

35. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, the economy flourishes.

This article is written by Susmita Sarma, a digital marketer at Vantage Circle. She was involved with media relations before shifting her interest in research and creative writing. Apart from being a classical music buff, she keeps a keen interest in anchoring and cooking. For any related queries, contact editor@vantagecircle.com