quotations about creativity
Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
ALAN ARKIN
New Mexico Magazine, Jun. 2011
Creativity is a stimulant to growth.
DANNY COX
Leadership When the Heat's On
Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it uses methods other than those of ordinary thinking, it must not be in disagreement with ordinary thinking--or rather, it must be something that, sooner or later, ordinary thinking will understand, accept, and appreciate. Otherwise the result would be bizarre, not creative.
SYLVANO ARIETI
Creativity: The Magic Synthesis
It is only the phenomenon of creativity which separates man from machines and animals.
A. REZA ARASTEH & J. D. ARASTEH
Creativity in the Life-cycle
Creativity is the ability each of us has to create something new by bringing together two or more different elements in a new context.
ANDY GREEN
Creativity in Public Relations
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.
CHINUA ACHEBE
Anthills of the Savannah
I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.
WILLIAM SHATNER
Up Till Now