Creativity Quotes - Page 59

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth.

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, "Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." That's what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.

The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of ex­perience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" crea­tivity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.

Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

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.

Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.