Creativity Quotes

"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." "You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." "You want to be a writer? Start writing You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now." "Good ideas are free – or at least they should be." "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?" "A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others." "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." "I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt ver" "If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness." "To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment." "Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!" "And when there isn't anything around to make me laugh, I make something up." "Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident" "Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something."