Everybody is creative in some way. Whether you are an entrepreneur or not, using creativity to your advantage can help you think outside the box and achieve success. Check out these inspiring quotes about creativity to help get you motivated!

Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one has thought before – Albert Einstein
The creative adult is the child who survived – Ursula K.

1. I’m not wanting and I don’t live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively. — Sarah Silverman

2. The candor of a civilized mind comes from the ability to question self before action; the reverse is the case for the creative mind; act first, then question later. — Val Uchendu

3. The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. — Pearl S. Buck

4. I do think it’s important, if you’re going to be very creative, to be a seeker. — Walter Isaacson

5. An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production. — Robin Sharma

6. To creative people, the compendium of the white man’s dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say. — Michael Bassey Johnson

7. While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative….the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember. — Twyla Tharp

8. The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how. — Norman Vincent Peale

9. It’s ever so fun and fulfilling to be clever, but more lasting and effective to be consistent. — Teresa R. Funke, Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog

10. Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative in the way they dress. — Tom Anderson

11. Acting is easier–writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. — William Shatner

12. I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons. — Rachael Ray

13. Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you! — Ramana Pemmaraju

14. Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. — Maxwell Maltz

15. If you don’t think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination. — Matthew Donnelly

16. Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest. — Sylvester Stallone

17. Besides your mouth, your mind is a powerful tool given to you by God. Use your mind; control your mind, don’t let it control you! Your imaginative power is your creative ability. — Paul Silway

18. Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. — Martin Luther King

19. God is the very creative energy of existence–creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance. — Rajneesh

20. The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure. — Marshall Mcluhan

21. Because Filipinos are very creative and assiduous people, they will always find a way to make things happen. — Tim Liwanag, First Filipino World Records

22. At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession. — Queen Elizabeth II

23. The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits. — Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

24. I’m not wanting and I don’t live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively. — Sarah Silverman

25. Art is evidence of our most creative moment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

26. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

27. The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself. — Rod Judkins, Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self

28. And that is another of the queer traits of Creative Vision. Those who use it get their work done with a minimum amount of hard work. — Napoleon Hill

29. We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe. — Vandana Shiva

30. What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls? — Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty–four Variations on Voice

31. Creative freedom and self–expression is what MySpace is all about. — Tom Anderson

32. What few rules appear to be in place are all made up. — Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You’re Alive, You’re Creative

33. When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly. — Timothy Leary

34. I would say that as I’ve gotten older, I trust my intuition more; I allow myself more freedom both musically, creatively and my own life existentially. — Matisyahu

35. Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity. — Saul Bass

36. I’ve always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life. — Zooey Deschanel

37. Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go. — Mel Brooks

38. The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around. — Rhonda Byrne

39. Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night. — Michele Jennae

40. What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet? — Michelle Dennis Evans

41. At the end, we’re kind of observers–creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I’m pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out. — Nick Cave

42. Socialize the individual’s surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness. — William F. Buckley

43. Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. — Martin Luther King

44. The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. — Van Wyck Brooks

45. Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk. — Wilfred Peterson

46. I am a Cause Artist : using my creative skills for the good of the world — Onkar K Khullar (Digital Gandhi)

47. Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one. — Paul Newman

48. Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won’t have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining. — Ralph Marston

49. If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems. — Matt Damon

50. You’re always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing. — Robert Frost

Creativity is a beautiful thing that can manifest in many forms. It can inspire us to think outside the box and to tap into our imaginations. These quotes about creativity remind us of how important it is to never stop pursuing our creative passions and to never give up on our dreams. No matter what curveballs life may throw our way, we can always find a way to be creative and to continue to make a positive impact on the world.