quotations about creativity
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
A Writer's Diary, May 11, 1920
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
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
I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.
WILLIAM SHATNER
Up Till Now
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
Creativity is a stimulant to growth.
DANNY COX
Leadership When the Heat's On
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