What is your creative outlet? The one that you get lost in for hours? You feel happy and fulfilled while doing it? This form of self-expression is where you’ll experience your highest levels of creativity according to author Daniel Pink in his book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. He says, “For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation—the drive do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing—is essential for high levels of creativity.” To achieve our fullest self-expression means that we find the thing that we can get absorbed in, feel challenged by and holds our interest for long periods.
Whether it be blogging, painting, photography, making jewelry, finding ways to solve problems, or creating innovative products or services, it’s unique to you, to your special gifts and talents. When you feel a drive or motivation to pursue it, you’ll feel creatively inspired.
Once you find that outlet of expression, there are ways to spark your creative thinking. One way is through these 23 creativity quotes below. Choose a quote that resonates with you. Then place it somewhere to help you ignite your unique form of self-expression.
1. “To be creative means to be in love with life.” ~Osho
2. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” ~George Bernard Shaw
3. “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” ~Vincent Van Gogh
4. “The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.” ~Dieter F. Uchtdorf
5. “You can’t be a creative thinker if you’re not stimulating your mind, just as you can’t be an Olympic athlete if you don’t train regularly.” ~Ken Robinson
6. “Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.” ~Wayne Dyer
7. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ~Pablo Picasso
8. “Creativity is breaking out of established patterns to look at things in a different way.” ~Edward de Bono
9. “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.” ~Earl Nightingale
10. “The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.” ~Julia Cameron
11. “There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.” ~Martha Graham
12. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~Maya Angelou
13. “A creative life is an amplified life.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert
14. “Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.” ~Dr. Seuss
15. “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” ~Jack London
16. “A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.” ~Gerald G. Jampolsky
17. “Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” ~Albert Einstein
18. “The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity.” ~Dan Stevens
19. “Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think is still the secret of great creative people.” ~Leo Burnett
20. “The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.” ~Deepak Chopra
21. “The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” ~Henry David Thoreau
22. “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ~Walt Disney
23. “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” ~Victor Hugo
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