"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity takes courage. "
— Henri Matisse

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

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."
— Pablo Picasso

"life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one"
— Stella Adler

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because 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 will be lost. "
— Martha Graham

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
— Albert Einstein

"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses."
— Edith Södergran

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
— Geoffrey Chaucer

"Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can
make someone smile while they're having a piss."
— Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)

"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."
— Pablo Picasso

"Creativity is an act of defiance."
— Twyla Tharp

"Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak..surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that."
— Hermann Hesse

"In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again."
— Anaïs Nin

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."
— Mary Shelley

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
— Louis Pasteur

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."
— Sophia Loren

"I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
— Marcel Duchamp

"Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man."
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."
— Lawrence Clark Powell

"In all matters of creativity, rules are meant to be broken when necessary."
— Haley Langford

"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
— Marcel Duchamp

"The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work."
— Ray Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence)

"If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others rarely make these confusions, and proceed by precise analysis."
— Kenneth J.W. Craik

"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created."
— Jacob Bronowski

"**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.**
That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision.

[first-line bold by author]
[2002] p.23"
— Gary Hamel (Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life)

""... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

[2002] p.46"
— Gary Hamel (Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life)

"Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene."
— John Barth

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

"You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic."
— Vic S. Sussman

"... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

Leading the Revolution, 2002, p.46"
— Gary Hamel