Creative expression consists in a perpetual transmutation
of non-being into Being.
-Hugh L'Anson Fausset

The absurd joy par excellence is creation.
-Albert Camus

Creativity is piercing the mundane
to find the marvelous.
-Bill Moyers

Creativity is an echo in us
of the creative harmony
that characterizes the whole world.
-Osho

Creative experience foreshadows
a new Heaven and a new Earth.
-Nikolai Berdyaev

Without the receptive, there is no creative.
-Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

It is the mystery of the creative act
that something other than our conscious self takes over.
-Arthur Erickson

Creativity is not a talent.
It is a way of operating.
-John Cleese

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation.
Without imagination there can be no creation.
-Pearl S. Buck

This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.
So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work,
then we share in the act of creating.
We not only escape time, we escape our self-conscious selves.
-Madeline L'Engle

Almost all creativity
involves purposeful play.
-Abraham Maslow

The creative mind plays
with the objects it loves.
-Carl Jung

Every creator dances as it were around the object
he is in the process of forming and molding.
-Joost A. M. Meerloo

Creativity is that marvelous capacity
to grasp mutually distinct realities
and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
-Max Ernst

It is the function of creative people to perceive relations
between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression
that seem totally different,
and to be able to connect the seemingly unconnected.
-William Plomer

One word, one gesture, or even one thought
can change the direction of the creative process.
-David A. Cooper

One of the greatest joys in life is creativity.
Information goes in, gets shuffled about,
and comes our in new and interesting ways.
-Peter McWilliams

Creativity is the natural extension of our enthusiasm.
-Earl Nightingale

True creativity
often starts where language ends.
-Arthur Koestler

I will not Reason and Compare;
my business is to Create.
-William Blake

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.
-Ernie J. Zelinski

Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about.
It is that we have to try;
to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.
-Madeline L'Engle

Creativity takes courage.
-Henri Matisse

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

To live a creative life,
we must lose the fear of being wrong.
-Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Creativity makes a leap,
then looks to see where it is.
-Mason Cooley

The creative process takes its own course.
If it did otherwise, it would not be creative.
-P. W. Martin

Surprise is where creativity comes in.
-Ray Bradbury

The creative element in man...
emerges in as mysterious a fashion
as those elementary particles
which leap into momentary existence in cyclotrons,
only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.
-Loren Eiseley

Creativity exists in the present moment.
You can't find it anywhere else.
-Natalie Goldberg

If you have creative work,
you don't have age or time.
-Louise Nevelson

The creative urge is the demon
that will not accept anything second-rate.
-Agnes de Mille

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm
between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer

People sometimes resist becoming creative 

because one's would-be creativeness

is always so much more impressive and important

than the little egg one lays in the end when birth takes place.

-Marie-Louise von Franz

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has,
the more creative one can be.
-Robert Mapplethorpe

The creative personality never remains fixed
on the first world it discovers.
It never resigns itself to anything.
-Anais Nin

Being with real people who warm us,
who endorse us and exhault our creativity,
is essential to the flow of creative life.
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In order to create,
there must be a dynamic force,
and what force is more potent than love?
-Igor Stravinsky

That which is creative
must create itself.
-John Keats

Creative activity could be described
as a type of learning process
where teacher and pupil
are located in the same individual.
-Arthur Koestler

Creativity advances through works
that bring about the artist's continuing self-creation.
-Garry Wills

The only way in which to welcome a creation,
is to create it again and perhaps to be re-created with it.
-Roberto Juarroz

Creativity means gradually, step by step,
to express your innermost self.
-Torkom Saraydarian

Create the kind of self
you will be happy to live with all your life.
-Golda Meir

The burden of creativity
is the burden of identity.
-Dvid Whyte

To create is likewise to shape one's fate.
-Albert Camus

I do believe that it is possible to create,
even without ever writing a word or painting a picture,
by simply moulding one's inner life.
And that too is a deed.
-Etty Hillesum

None of you knows what creativity means.
To paint a picture, to write a poem? No!
To recast one's whole age,
to impose upon it the stamp of one's will,
to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it,
to overpower it with one's spirit.
-Christian Morgenstern

There is not greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator.
The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
-Henri Bergson