Quotes About Creativity

Why settle for the ordinary when the extraordinary is only a little dreaming and doing away?

Every culture elects some central virtues, and creativity is one of ours. In fact, right now, we're living through a creativity boom. Few qualities are more sought after, few skills more envied. Everyone wants to be more creative—how else, we think, can we become fully realized people?

believe one of the best models for creativity is found in the design and development of Disney theme parks, a practice better known as Imagineering.

and just as the first Imagineers adopted techniques and practices from animation and movie-making to develop the craft of Imagineering, we can borrow (and steal) principles, practices, and processes from Imagineering and apply them in other creative endeavors.

It is an iterative process that goes something like this: * Screen it * Discuss it * Get the feeling that you don't know what you're doing * Weep openly * Tear it apart * Correct it * Re-board it * Rebuild it * Screen it again * Repeat as necessary

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward–opening new doors and doing new things—because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting…we call it "Imagineering"—the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how.

Walt Disney defined Imagineering as the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how. I like

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.

Let the old Muse loosen her stays Or give me a new Muse with stockings and suspenders And a smile like a cat, With false eyelashes and finger-nails of carmine And dressed by Schiaparelli, with a pill-box hat. ... Give me a houri but houris are too easy, Give me a nun; We'll rape the angels off the golden reredos Before we're done.

We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

Jazz is my childhood.

You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters;

We permit free expression because we need the resources of the whole group to get us the ideas we need.

Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze, die er nog niet in staan, zijn merkwaardig.

Elk dier en elke schrijver heeft een wapen waarmee hij zich best verdedigen kan

Wie is nu dichter en wie niet? Gij en ik kunnen het zijn, zonder het misschien zelf te weten! In u kan een verlangen zijn, een vreemde stuwkracht die u naar de pen doet grijpen om neer te schrijven wat ge gezien, gehoord en zeer diep gevoeld hebt. Het moet niet altijd in rijm zijn om kunst te zijn.

What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.

Form follows function.