Quotes on Creativity

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.