Creativity means simply putting old things together in a fresh way.
Creative - Creativity Quotes
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
And the eternal paradox of it is that if a man is to know the triumphant labor of creation, he must for long periods resign himself to loneliness.
Sometimes there is a thin line between creative tension and erratic behavior. Since human beings are immensely complex and adaptable, no one can be completely predictable.
At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being – the reward he seeks – the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets […]
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process.
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
