| Author |
Quotes |
| Aesop | Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. |
| Alfonso | Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements |
| Anna Freud | Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. |
| Baltasar Gracian | Begin with another's to end with your own. |
| Brian Aldiss | Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. |
| Cecil B DeMille | Creation is a drug I can't do without. |
| Charles Browder | The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. |
| Charles Brower | Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. |
| Charles Du Bos | It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. |
| Charles Du Bos | Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? |
| Clement Greenberg | All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. |
| De Chateaubriand | An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. |
| E L Doctorow | It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. |
| Edward Albee | The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. |
| Edward de Bono | Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. |
| Eric Clapton | It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.". |
| Ernest Dimnet | Ideas are the root of creation. |
| F Scott Fitzgerald | There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. |
| Gerald Holton | Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. |
| Gilbert George | We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. |
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