Abraham Maslow Creativity Quotations

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.