by Staff
In the landscape of education always changing – even more for education, the culture of creativity is a vital component of learning.
Combining existing ideas in new forms – in new ideas – is part of creativity.
More than a simple artistic enterprise, creativity can lead to curiosity, improves problem solving capacities and perhaps implemented – a deeper, more authentic and nuanced understanding in the world. As we mentioned in The significant advantages of creativity in class“Not only can you practice creativity through many different supports, but its advantages apply to almost all professions.”
This adaptability and this vast impact highlight the importance of creative reflection in educational contexts. The following quotes offer various perspectives on the power and essence of creativity, inviting reflection on its crucial role in personal and intellectual growth.
40 of the best quotes on creativity for teaching and learning
1. “Almost always, the dedicated creative minority made the world better.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
2. “Being creative means being in love with life. You can only be creative if you like life enough so that you want to improve your beauty, bring a little more music, a little more poetry and a little more dance.” – Osho
3. “An idea is salvation through imagination.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
4. “Creativity requires courage to abandon certainties.” – Erich fromm
5. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Because knowledge is limited, while the imagination surrounds the world. ” – Albert Einstein
6. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go with a club.” – Jack London
7. “Creativity is a wild spirit and a disciplined eye.” – Dorothy Parker
8. “The world always seems brighter when you just did something that was not there before.” – Neil Gaiman
9. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
10. “Creativity allows you to make mistakes. Art is to know which to keep.” – Scott Adams
11. “Creativity does not expect perfect moments. He emits his own ordinary moments.” – Bruce Garrabrandt
12. “Passion is a great force that triggers creativity. If you are passionate, you are more willing to take risks.” – Yo-yo ma
13. “Creativity perceived the trivial to find the wonderful.” – Bill Moyers
14. “Imagination is the beginning of creation: you imagine what you want, what you imagine and create what you want.” – George Bernard Shaw
15. “The main enemy of creativity is” good “meaning”. – Pablo Picasso
16. “Don’t be afraid of perfection – you never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí
17. “Your life is already clever – pending, in the meantime, that you did it art.” – Toni Morrison
18. “Creativity is not the discovery of a thing, but the manufacture of something after its discovery.” – James Russell Lowell
19. “You can’t use creativity. The more you use it, the more you have it.” – Maya Angelou
20. “An essential aspect of creativity is not afraid to fail.” – Edwin Land
21. “Creativity is a way to share your soul with the world.” – Brené Brown
22. “The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
23. “Think left and think right, think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think if only you try!” – Dr Seuss
24. “Stop thinking about art. Start thinking about work. It is not an inspiration; it is a question of discipline.” – Twyla Tharp
25. “Originality is nothing more than a judicious imitation.” – Voltaire
26. “The secret of creativity is how to hide your sources.” – Albert Einstein
27. “Creativity: see what everyone has seen and think what no one else has thought.” – Albert Szent-Györgyi
28. “Creativity is the power to connect apparently unconnected.” – William Plomer
29. “There is no innovation and safe creativity. Period.” – Brené Brown
30. “All you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
31. “Do not think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.” – Ray Bradbury
32. “Creativity is contagious. Pass it.” – Albert Einstein
33. “Each artist was first amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “Some people see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that have never been and ask why.” – George Bernard Shaw
35. “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” – Linus Pauling
36. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
37. “Each great advance of science has issued a new audacity of imagination.” – John Dewey
38. “Creativity begins with an affinity towards risk.” – Ed Catmull
39. “Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we will repeat the same models forever.” – Bono Edward
40. “Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.” – Victor Pinchuk
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