In their words

Rita Mae Brown: Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rollo May: Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Albert Einstein: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Edward de Bono: It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edwin Land: Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Erich Fromm: Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Henry David Thoreau: The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

Carl Sagan: It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Margaret J. Wheatley: The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.

Nietzsche: You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Pablo Picasso: All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .