Quotes

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Purpose

The purpose of the Quotes page is to provide you with a better understanding of creativity. It gives the perspective of many people who are seen to be creative or to have been creative in the past. Because creativity can be a very hard term to define, these quotes give a fuller picture of what the word truly encompasses.

Quotes

• "Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem." -Rollo May

• “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.” -Edward de Bono

• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide it" -Albert Einstein

• "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." -Carl Jung

• "Creativity is a drug I cannot live without" -Cecil B. DeMille

• "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift" -Albert Einstein

• "Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self." -Erich Fromm

• "The world is but a canvas to the imagination" -Thoreau

• "The things we fear the most in organization -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- re the primary sources of creativity" -Wheatley

• “Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.” -Susan Sontag

• “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.” -George Lois

• "You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created." -Albert Einstein

• "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." -Erich Fromm

• "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." -Pablo Picasso

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Christopher I. Gonzalez 14:55, 4 May 2006 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Taylor Whitmer 06:40, 17 May 2006 (PDT)

Brooke Birrenkott 21:30, 25 May 2006 (PDT)