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
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New Mexico Magazine, Jun. 2011
You can always make up in creativity what you lack in good fortune. Playing the game of life is like playing poker. Playing three aces badly won't get you as far as playing a terrible hand well.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
The Lazy Person's Guide to Success: How to Get What You Want Without Killing Yourself for It
We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
JULIA CAMERON
Heart Steps
Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
NNAMDI AZIKIWE
speech, Nov. 11, 1934
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
Without freedom, there is no creation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
On Freedom
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
SCOTT ADAMS
The Dilbert Principle
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
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden
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
Creativity is purposeful and involves effort to make something work, to make something better, more meaningful, or more beautiful.
ALANE J. STARKO
Creativity in the Classroom
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
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 Evolution...
Fashioning a growing idea,
Designing progress to arrive at a pier.
ALFREDA DOYLE
Poetry about Creativity
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
Creativity perpetually invents itself.
PAUL PALNIK
Creative Consciousness
Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.
ERNEST HOLMES
This Thing Called You
Creativity ... consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.
GEORGE KNELLER
attributed, Quotes about Creativity
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
To me, creativity is a vision and the actualization of that vision. This vision is a unit; it is complete and pregnant. Just as night gives birth to day, the seed to a plant, an ovum to a child; so too a creative vision gives birth indefinitely and its actualization produces scientific, artistic or religious forms.
A. REZA ARASTEH & J. D. ARASTEH
Creativity in the Life-cycle