“Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.” WorldFirstsLooksArtHappensEarthSufferingStepsCreativityTasksCreatorFirst StepsKinderGod Image Author:Elizabeth O'Connor
“In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen.” EndsHappensOrderCreativityDead Ends Author:Christoph Niemann
“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 itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.” WantHappensCareNextProcessResultsCreativityDestinyToo MuchMetaphorRepresentativesMonkCraveDiligenceWhatever HappensMulesFussing Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.” PeopleBelieveHumansReasonHappensSpiritHuman BeingsCreativityDivineSourceAncientRomeGreeceAncient RomeAncient Greece Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.” ThinkingShouldMeanArtMatterHappensTalkingCreativityPaintingAbsolutesCookingPhysicsCraftsEtcChemistryEngineeringNot Talking Author:Alton Brown
“While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.” IdeasHappensProcessCreativityBrilliantTinyReactionsChainsSparksFlashExecutingChain Reactions Author:R. Keith Sawyer
“He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.” WellsHeartKindArtRealCountryEnoughHappensBreakCreativityToo MuchTalentRevolutionQuantityMediocreBurstingUndisciplined Author:Pauline Kael
“[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.” BelieveLongHappensCreativityTheoryPeriodsProjectsGreenBoringThings HappenStaringCollaborationContinuityLong DayDisheartening Author:Betty Comden