quotations about creativity
Creativity means not copying.
FERRAN ADRIÀ
Washington Post, Oct. 11, 2011
Creativity is part of what makes us human. Our nearest relatives, chimpanzees and other primates, are often quite intelligent but never reach these high levels of performance. And although advanced "artificially intelligent" computer programs hold the world title in chess, and can crunch through mounds of data and identify patterns invisible to the human eye, they still cannot master everyday creative skills.
ROBERT KEITH SAWYER
Explaining Creativity
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
LADY GAGA
Pop Dirt, March 9, 2009
God rested when he had left his creative power to itself in man.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
ANAIS NIN
The Novel of the Future
Too academic an education can inhibit the workings of the creative mind.
MARGARET DRABBLE
The Paris Review, fall/winter 1978
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;
A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak,
If you've once found the way you've achieved the grand stroke.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Emerson
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
SCOTT ADAMS
The Dilbert Principle
Broken symmetry is imperfection, but rich in creativity. The universe is created out of broken symmetry.
AMIT RAY
Meditation: Insights and Inspiration
A creative person is someone who imagines what other people cannot. Their value to us lies in expanding our own possibilities. Walls fall. We break out.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
blog, Dec. 2000
Creativity is a condition of our species. We invent procedures, alter behaviors, develop new systems, and create new knowledge to increase our likelihood of survival and fulfillment. Human creativity is an extension or another expression of our biological imperative to procreate.
MARCI SEGAL
Creativity and Personality Type
Without freedom, there is no creation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
On Freedom
Creativity is a potent element of individual life experience and is the soil at the root of much of human progress and endeavour.
MICHAEL A. WEST
Developing Creativity in Organizations
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Forbes Magazine, Sep. 15, 1974
Creativity ... consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.
GEORGE KNELLER
attributed, Quotes about Creativity
Creativity is not to be located in one state of mind, one room, one type of person, one individual. Rather it lies in the transition points between different ways of thinking. If we close the doors, we will never hear the full story.
CHRIS BILTON
Management and Creativity
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLE
attributed, Witty Words from Wise Women
I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.
LYLE LOVETT
The Hartford Courant, Nov. 18, 2011
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
ANTHONY BURGESS
attributed, Webster's Quotations