“Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.” KnowsEndsEnergyCreativityCreativeTalentActivityDrawsMathematicsCookingWoodsDrawingDisasterExperimentsImaginativeCarvingDrivel Author:Julia Child
“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” CreativePathInnovationCuriosityMoving ForwardCuriousMoving OnNew ThingsBe CreativeImaginativeKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardCartoonistMoving InCreativity And InnovationLetting Go And Moving OnCreative IdeasIdeas And CreativityInspire CreativityInspiration And CreativityNew PathsMoving Forward In LifeCreative GeniusDisney CompanyJust Keep MovingJust Move OnMany PathsInspirational Moving OnJust Keep Moving ForwardNext MoveJust Keep Moving OnInspirational Moving ForwardChildren ImaginationForward MotionNew Ways Of Doing ThingsTough Competition Author:Walt Disney
“It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self ... Imaginative people have messier minds.” PeopleKnowsMindSelfHardCreativeComplexesParadoxStanding OutImaginativeCreative People Author:Scott Barry Kaufman
“Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.” HumansArtReligionValuesEffortCreativeHuman LifeImaginative Author:Karen Armstrong
“[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .” PastMy OwnCreativeEmotionalParticularInstantImitationVitalityImaginativePast And Present Author:Barbara Hepworth
“I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a "good" politician.” WayBelieveSometimesUsePoliticalLiteratureI BelieveCreativePoliticianNot SureImaginativeMisuseCreative WritersGood Politicians Author:Gayl Jones
“The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.” PeopleMindSometimesWholeFactsPassionCommonEffortCreativeGeniusDramaInsultInjuryImaginativeCreative Genius Book:Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms
“Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.” PeopleWritingHas BeensPlayBigsAttentionQualityLeaderCreativeDoubtBalanceBandHighestTraditionUniversityVariousDecadesClockInterpretationPlusWillingnessExplorationInsightfulTexasArrangementsImaginativeIncarnationLabsEnsembleMusicianshipMusicality Author:Gary Burton
“I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.” YearsKindMadePlayCreativeIndustryPerformancesDrawingReactionsImpressionMaryImaginativeObsessiveRapture Author:Todd Haynes