Quotes About Creativity

Teachers themselves uninterested in art or lacking faith in the ability of students to think for themselves can make art into something baffling or boring for the rest of the student's life.

More prized by his parents than good grades, Chris mentioned, was "Yankee ingenuity"—putting your smarts to work. "It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim.

The painting seems to have a bubbly effect on both of them, aesthetic champagne.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage— to move in the opposite direction.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

The brain is like a massive LEGO set, where each of the individual pieces is quite simple (like a single LEGO piece), and all the power comes from the nearly infinite ways that these simple pieces can be recombined to do different things.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

Every single soul is a poem.

If you spend long enough realizing a character in your book, congratulations, you've made a friend for life.

Of course, he could shoot lasers out of his eyes and his butt, just like Little Bunny Boom-Boom.

Alfonso Cuaron

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Weasleys' wizard wheezes

Newt Scamander

Answer Lockhart's Fan Mail

In advertising, if you could get clients to laugh, they usually bought your ideas

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Nothing is sexier than the naked mind --nothing more seductive than the inventive imagination.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.