quotations about creativity
The search for knowledge about creativity is linked with magic, the demonic, and the divine, yet such knowledge is at the forefront of rational inquiry. Creativity is paradoxical and complex, and the most steadfast investigator is constantly beset with feelings of awe and a sense of mystery as he pursues his inquiry. Creativity encompasses the magical incantations and drawings of primitive man, the appearance of new forms in nature, and the evil genius of Faust. It is a human capacity but it seems to transcend human capacities.
ALBERT ROTHENBERG
The Creativity Question
God rested when he had left his creative power to itself in man.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
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
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
Creativity perpetually invents itself.
PAUL PALNIK
Creative Consciousness
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 ... consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.
GEORGE KNELLER
attributed, Quotes about Creativity
Creativity means not copying.
FERRAN ADRIÀ
Washington Post, Oct. 11, 2011
Without freedom, there is no creation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
On Freedom
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" taste.
PABLO PICASSO
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul
Creativity is Evolution...
Fashioning a growing idea,
Designing progress to arrive at a pier.
ALFREDA DOYLE
Poetry about Creativity
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 a conceptual, abstracted system. It is not tangible, but many of its products are. Creative people work in the tangible world, producing real products.
WILLIAM G. COVINGTON
JR., Creativity and General Systems Theory
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 denotes a person's capacity to produce new or original ideas, insights, inventions, or artistic products, which are accepted by experts as being of scientific, aesthetic, social, or technical value.
MARGARET BODEN
Dimensions of Creativity
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
Broken symmetry is imperfection, but rich in creativity. The universe is created out of broken symmetry.
AMIT RAY
Meditation: Insights and Inspiration
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
SCOTT ADAMS
The Dilbert Principle
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
Human creativity uses what is already existing and available and changes it in unpredictable ways.
SYLVANO ARIETI
Creativity: The Magic Synthesis