“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.” HumansFactsLightPassionEnergyImaginationMemoriesPowerfulExistenceFictionVisionCreativeObjectsMaterialsIdealsRelationObviousIntenseConfusionFancyReachingFedsAssociationInwardRepresentationConstructsInclinationHuman ExistenceHabitualTransientBreadthCreative EnergySusceptibility Author:George Eliot
“Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.” WorldMindKindMatterStatesIndividualLossPleasureCreativeSubjectsObjectsEmotionalDependsAddictionAriseAppealsEncountersExplorationState Of MindPonderingCognitiveSensoryCreative Life Author:Roger Scruton
“In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had to get inside it. In my opinion the two views can be reconciled in a poetic cognition of the world. But to the very fact that they appealed to the creative depths in the painter by awakening in him hidden forces which were intuitive and vitalizing, the Futurist theories did more than the Cubist principles to open up unexplored and boundless horizons.” WorldTwoFactsForceViewsOpinionPrinciplesCreativeObjectsTheoryMethodDepthRoundsAwakeningPainterPoeticHorizonIntuitiveBoundlessCognitionGraspingUnexploredFuturist Author:Gino Severini
“Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.” IfsThinkingWantIdeasDifferentMomentsYoungThreeProcessCreativeDesignObjectsSolutionsComplexesAvailableComplicatedCreative ProcessSophisticatedNaiveThree TimesContradictoryPrada Author:Miuccia Prada
“Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If initial conditions do not forever determine an object's motion, if instead, every time we observe, there is a new beginning, then the world is creative at the base level.” IfsWorldChallengesLevelsForeverCreativeConditionsObjectsConceptsExcitingDeterminePhysicsQuantumNew BeginningsInitialsContinuityWorldviewQuantum PhysicsTrajectory Book:The Self-Aware Universe Source: The Self-Aware Universe
“With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories.” TryingKindMadeWholeCharacterStoriesUseLightOpportunitySidesBrainCreativeFiguresObjectsCreatingDigitalTransitionIntegratingAdventImaging Author:John Dykstra
“I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass jar!) and instantly incorporate it in a project. It makes me feel creative on an every day basis.” FeelsLooksCreativeObjectsProjectsBasesGlassesStudiosTinyTeaKitchenImprovisationJarsSample Author:Signe Baumane
“Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.” GivingHumansPersonsKnownCreativeObjectsEmotionalSomething NewConstructs Author:Lev S. Vygotsky
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” LoveMindPlayFunLeadershipActingCreativityCreativeCreationObjectsInnovationInstinctIntellectCraftsAccomplishedSomething NewBe CreativeInnovativeMemories Dreams ReflectionsCreative ThinkingCreating SomethingCreative MindCreative ImaginationImagination And CreativityInspiration And CreativityImagination CreativityCreative SparkMind Playing Book:Psychological Types Source: Psychological Types