Creativity Quotes

A few of my favourite inspirational sayings and quotations on creativity and related subjects:

"The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!"
- Michael Bakunin

"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

"In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it"
- Julia Cameron

"Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open"
- Thomas R. Dewar

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things"
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards"
- Arthur Koestler

"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail"
- Edwin H. Land

"Another word for creativity is courage"
- George Prince

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
- Oscar Wilde

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