quotations about creativity
God rested when he had left his creative power to itself in man.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
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
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
EDWARD DE BONO
Lateral Thinking for Management
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLE
attributed, Witty Words from Wise Women
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 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 allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
SCOTT ADAMS
The Dilbert Principle
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
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
Creativity perpetually invents itself.
PAUL PALNIK
Creative Consciousness
Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
THOMAS TROWARD
The Creative Process in the Individual
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 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
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 follows its own rules.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Butlerian Jihad
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
WILLIAM BERNBACH
Bill Bernbach Said...
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
Creativity is a condition of our species. We invent procedures, alter behaviors, develop new systems, and create new knowledge to increase our likelihood of survival and fulfillment. Human creativity is an extension or another expression of our biological imperative to procreate.
MARCI SEGAL
Creativity and Personality Type
Without freedom, there is no creation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
On Freedom
Creativity is Evolution...
Fashioning a growing idea,
Designing progress to arrive at a pier.
ALFREDA DOYLE
Poetry about Creativity