--- title: Interactive: How Creative People Like Maya Angelou, Picasso Spent Time description: From Maya Angelou to Beethoven to Picasso canonical: https://time.com/2963139/heres-how-the-worlds-most-creative-people-organize-their-daily-routines/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-07T19:17:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:26.818Z og:title: Here's How the World's Most Creative People Organize Their Daily Routines og:description: From Maya Angelou to Beethoven to Picasso og:url: https://time.com/2963139/heres-how-the-worlds-most-creative-people-organize-their-daily-routines/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How the World's Most Creative People Organize Their Daily Routines twitter:description: From Maya Angelou to Beethoven to Picasso twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's How the World's Most Creative People Organize Their Daily Routines by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 7, 2014 7:17 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 7, 2014 7:17 PM UTC Never sure how to budget your time each day to maximize your productivity and enhance your creativity? Well, perhaps you should take a cue from some of history’s most successful and prolific artists, writers, musicians and thinkers. This interactive tool created[ by Podio](https://podio.com/) compares the daily schedules of some of history’s most famous creative types. ([View full-size](https://podio.com/site/creative-routines). via [Podio](http://podio.com)). So if you’re looking to create some new daily habits, allow these folks to be your inspiration. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2963139/heres-how-the-worlds-most-creative-people-organize-their-daily-routines/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2963139/heres-how-the-worlds-most-creative-people-organize-their-daily-routines/"},"headline":"Here's How the World's Most Creative People Organize Their Daily Routines","datePublished":"2014-07-07T19:17:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:26.818Z","description":"From Maya Angelou to Beethoven to Picasso","url":"https://time.com/2963139/heres-how-the-worlds-most-creative-people-organize-their-daily-routines/","keywords":["Newsfeed","infographic","Arts","Artists","Creativity","interactive"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2963139/heres-how-the-worlds-most-creative-people-organize-their-daily-routines/","name":"Here's How the World's Most Creative People Organize Their Daily Routines"}}]}] ```