Quotes About Creativity

A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.