Explore Quotes on Creativity

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Creativity is to think more efficiently.

And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it, to keep us fearful, to suppress knowledge, to curtail freedom and creativity, and to celebrate death. It's nothing less than the sanctified dumbing-down of the human race. And demanding respect for it is frankly an insult that deserves to be repaid with considerable interest.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.