Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.            —Alan Alda

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

                        —George J. Seidel

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

                                   —Carl Jung

Creative people who can’t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.       —R.D. Laing

The creative process takes its own course. If it did otherwise, it would not be creative.

                               —F.W. Martin

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

                              —Scott Adams

Life is creation. Self and circumstances are the raw material.               —Dorothy M. Richardson

Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

      —Abraham Joshua Heschel

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.  —A.A. Milne

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!

                    —Peter McWilliams

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

—Charles Mingus