Quotes About Creativity

Finally the gleeman seemed to tire of hearing him say "I will do what I must," and stopped coming. It seemed that he did not want to compose his epic unless it could be full of pained emotion. The man looked frustrated when he stalked off for the last time, cloak fluttering furiously behind him.

And not the sort of thing you have imagination enough to think up.

They must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them.

But what Ramanujan wanted more, more than anything, was simply the freedom to do as he wished, to be left alone to think, to dream, to create, to lose himself in a world of his own making.

His academic failure forced him to develop unconventionally, free of the social straightjacket that might have constrained his progress to well-worn paths.

The cards are stacked, against any original mind, and perhaps properly so.

Spy a striking new tack to take with a problem? Don't worry about elaborate scientific controls for now: Just get hysterical and do it

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

En lugar de buscar un empleo, busca problemas que necesiten ser resueltos.

Schools were designed to produce good employees instead of employers

ahora todo mundo quiere ser empresario, toda la gente tiene una idea millonaria en la cabeza. El problema es que en las escuelas no se les enseña a los estudiantes a ser empresarios.

We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness, and a developing sense of security about our own creative energies.

There's gotta be a way out of this dungeon.- G. Gygax

World War II had exposed millions of young American men and women to the art and architecture of Europe and Asia and almost overnight created an interest in and appreciation for the arts that would normally require generations to nurture.

The leader of an organization is the engine of change and reform, and his work is never done. If his yellow tablet keeps filling up with ideas, he should keep on truckin'. But if a leader cannot sustain his enthusiasm, energy, and creativity to keep making his institution better, he needs to step aside for someone who can.

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20–20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you were going in the past. Creativity, originality, inventiveness, intuition, imagination—"unstuckness," in other words—are completely outside its domain.

But technology is simply the making of things and the making of things can't by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the making of things. Actually a root word of technology, techne , originally meant art. The ancient Greeks never separated art from manufacture in their minds, and so never developed separate words for them.

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.

Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything—from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive. Feelings rather than facts predominate. "Art" when it is opposed to "Science" is often romantic. It does not proceed by reason or by laws. It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience.

Then one evening, contrary to his custom, he drank black coffee and couldn't sleep. Ideas arose in crowds. He felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

Writing it seemed to have higher quality than not writing it, that was all.

Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade.