Quotes About Creativity

Even today, LEGO continues to embrace one of founder Ole Kirk Christiansen's core values: to never let war seem like child's play.

Schedule blocks of time for different modes of thinking.

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

The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.

testing out models, and then refining everything further, I developed a set of ideas that was transforming people's ability

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Poetry became his favorite genre; he memorized poetic lyrics and recited them often. For him, poetry organized and crystalized experience as no other type of language did.

Whitman wrote articles on almost every topic, storing up images and impressions that would later be useful to him as a poet.

The alphabet was an invention below stairs.

Johann Sebastian Bach presumably had other things in mind when, in about 1723, he wrote his "Air on a G string" (actually so named by a later arranger.) Part of a larger piece for string quartet, the "Air" includes a violin solo that fits entirely on the G string, the lowest of the violin's four strings.

The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the doing.

The late sculptor Ken Price put it best: "Nothing I can say is going to improve how it looks.

The right idea, one that is in productive sync with one's talents, can unlock a whole worldview. If that idea is also part of a sensibility that is forming and spreading in the larger culture, or zeitgeist, a multiplier effect comes into play, and the art will resonate strongly with the viewing public. We will feel that it expresses us.

good art illustrates anything at all, it's likely to be a story you didn't even know needed telling.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3 1996 ' I'll say to someone.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit. I myself was confounded as shit...

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.' Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames