quotations about creativity
Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being.... We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to--even surrender to--the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH
Free Play
Creativity is the ability each of us has to create something new by bringing together two or more different elements in a new context.
ANDY GREEN
Creativity in Public Relations
It is only the phenomenon of creativity which separates man from machines and animals.
A. REZA ARASTEH & J. D. ARASTEH
Creativity in the Life-cycle
Creativity is a puzzle, a paradox, some say a mystery. Inventors, scientists, and artists rarely know how their ideas arise. They mention intuition, but cannot say how it works. Most psychologists cannot tell us much about it either. What's more, many people assume that there will never be a scientific theory of creativity--for how could science possibly explain fundamental novelties? As if all this were not daunting enough, the apparent unpredictability of creativity seems to outlaw any systemic explanation whether scientific or historical.
MARGARET BODEN
Dimensions of Creativity
Creativity is a stimulant to growth.
DANNY COX
Leadership When the Heat's On
I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.
WILLIAM SHATNER
Up Till Now
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.
CHINUA ACHEBE
Anthills of the Savannah