Creativity quotes
Welcome to our Creativity collection, a tribute to the boundless realm of imagination, originality, and the transformative power of embracing creativity as a means of self-expression and problem-solving. In this curated compilation of quotes, we explore the world of creativity, celebrating its ability to inspire innovation, ignite passion, and redefine the way we perceive art, ideas, and the human spirit.
Creativity is more than a concept; it's a wellspring of inspiration, a force that propels us to think beyond boundaries, and a source of empowerment that unleashes the unique potential within each of us. Our Creativity quotes honor the wisdom of those who've embraced the power of imaginative thinking, the insight that arises from understanding the transformative influence of creative expression, and the way creativity empowers us to transform challenges into opportunities and embrace the beauty of originality.
Whether you're captivated by the stories of individuals who've embraced creativity as a way of life, intrigued by the psychology of innovative thinking and artistic expression, or simply drawn to the narratives of individuals who've found empowerment through their creative pursuits, these quotes offer insights into the strategies, attitudes, and practices that nurture and celebrate creativity.
Embark on a journey that celebrates the stories of individuals who've embraced creativity as a boundless journey of self-expression, the wisdom drawn from understanding that true beauty lies in the power of human imagination, and the inspiration to infuse your own life with a sense of creativity that resonates with your values and aspirations. Discover the narratives of those who've found empowerment through creative expression, the secrets to cultivating a mindset of imaginative thinking, and the empowering realization that creativity is the key to unlocking your inner artist, innovator, and problem-solver.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhen I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesIt's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWhen I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsA writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorA writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA writer's work is the product of laziness.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsNecessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesWhen you can sit down with a plain sheet of paper in front of you and make some notes, and, little by little, you see it take shape and become a concept for a movie or a TV show. That's a real thrill. You watch it go from notes on a paper to a meeting with writers and directors and actors. I can't think of anything that's more exciting.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsOf course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI enjoyed reading Batman, and Superman, and all the super ones, but I never wished I created them. I've got to let there be some work for other people!
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorIf you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesNo matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWriting is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterPoetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesIt's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories, I love coming up with ideas for new projects and I love the people I work with, because I work with great writers and artists and directors and actors.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI'm not a guy who gets inspirations.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorBefore you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThere are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesYou can't kill a good comic book series.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNovels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesMost people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterAlthough I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesThe way I'm doing it is I'm trying to think to myself, "Okay, I have the name Superman, and he's going to be a guy that deserves the name 'Superman.' I'm trying to forget about Krypton, about The Daily Planet what would I do if I was thinking it up?" I can do it any way at all..I can make him an Eskimo midget who's toothless and blind... I can do anything. It's difficult .
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI think it's just the challenge. It's not that all my life I've wanted to do characters [in Marvel] , because I never particularly thought about it, but the challenge of saying, "How could they be done differently that may be more absorbing or more effective?"
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorA writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesIf nobody is looking for a story, and I have no reason to write a story, I would really much rather to do anything else because it's no fun writing stories, particularly not for me. I just do it in order to sell them and make a couple of bucks.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let's see.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I respect as much as VIBE.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.