“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.” ArtFeelingsDreamPainTogetherJoyArtistHumanitySpeakWonderCreativityOur LivesMysteryCreationSorrowIllusionCapacityDelightConvictionPityAspirationSubtleSolidarityFellowshipInvincibleUnbornLatentCreating Beauty Book:The Portable Conrad Source: The Portable Conrad
“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.” IndividualSocialImaginationAcceptingCreativityCreativeCapableCapacityPressureCaughtIntuitionAssumptionQuestioningPeer PressureSocial PressureFalse Assumptions Author:John W. Gardner
“Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.” HumansProblemHappensSocialCreativityEconomicKeysCapacityThings HappenUnlimitedMake Things HappenEconomic Problems Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.” ThinkingWayAbilityNumbersCreativityTalentDependsSkillsCapacityIncludingDrySpellsNew WaysTechnical Skills Author:Teresa Amabile
“Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.” DreamSpiritCreativityCreationCapacityWake UpInfiniteCosmosWakingOur DreamsWaking Life Author:Jackie Gleason
“the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.” ArtistCoursesWorkCreativityDevelopmentCapacity Book:Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist Source: Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist
“I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child. they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.” YearsHumansKindChildrenHardHuman BeingsCreativityHard WorkIntegrityOrdinaryCapacityExpectedDeep ThoughtPaymentBeing LovedLatent Author:Sybil Marshall
“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.” HumansMayHas BeensPoetryLiteratureSocialCreativityCapacitySelectionRandomness Author:Geoffrey Miller
“Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.” NeedsGovernmentSchoolSocialLinesWonderCreativityPracticeCreationCapacityInstitutionsBottomCaringProductivityRationalCorporationsAweProductiveEthicalJudgedEfficientSensitivityBottom LineGrandeurEcologicalMoney And PowerAwe And WonderEmo Love Author:Michael Lerner
“I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.” IfsThinkingUseAsksCan DoWonderCreativityComputerCapacityRemarkableCapabilityFractionsPersonal Computers Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher
“Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.” TryingSidesCreativityCapacityMadnessMad Author:Jeanette Winterson
“A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.” ThinkingMindMayIdeasCreativityCreativePlansCapacityEmptyMereExtraordinaryTechniquePhrasesAcquireNew IdeasShallowBe CreativeGadgetsInsufficientExtraordinary ThingsDams Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsWellsHas BeensMadeI CanProblemAbleBeautifulEnjoyLosesCreativityFailingPaintingOffersProjectsCapacitySurpriseMona LisaBeautiful Paintings Author:Shahrukh Khan
“Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.” WorldMindChildrenCreativityChildhoodKeysCapacityAspectMaintainingOmnipotence Author:Donald Woods Winnicott
“The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.” PeopleCountryUseJoySpiritBlackMoralCreativityWeaponsCapacityClarityAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleBoundlessHallelujahAmerican Spirit Author:Van Jones
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” InspirationalPlayUseOrderCreativityCreativeSolitudeQuietCapacityOvercomingIntrovertConstructiveBeing AloneCreative PeopleCreative PersonQuiet PeopleBeing QuietFear Of Being Alone Author:Rollo May
“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.” RealityCreativityDrawsCapacitySparksMarvelousJuxtaposition Author:Max Ernst