Creativity Quotes

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* Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein * The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. -- Albert Einstein "Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." -- Albert Einstein

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political. -- Scilla Elworthy

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done"
-- Rudolf Flesch

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm

"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."
-- Erich Fromm

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. -- R. Buckminster Fuller When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
-- John W. Gardner (1912 - )

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
-- Arnold Glascow

"In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important — and often more profitable — than to be civil or creative or truly original.’’ ~ Al Gore

Concern over criticism clogs creativity.
-- Duane Alan Hahn

"The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador. -- Herbie Hancock Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. -- Herbie Hancock

* If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. -- Vaclav Havel

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
-- Dee Hock

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo

"The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings." -- Daisaku Ikeda

 

Creativity Quotes

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Creativity Day -April 21