Quotes About Creativity

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

The best education in film is to make one

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.