Creativity Quotes - Page 13

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.

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.

Creativity is mistakes.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity.

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

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

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.