Quotes About Creativity

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

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.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.