2. On Creativity
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You
imagine what you desire, you will what you
imagine and at last you create what you will
(George Bernard Shaw).
• There is no doubt that creativity is the most
important human resource of all. Without
creativity, there would be no progress, and we
would be forever repeating the same patterns
(Edward de Bono).
• The creative is the place where no one else has
ever been. You have to leave the city of your
comfort and go into the wilderness of your
intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful.
What you’ll discover is yourself (Alan Alda).
3. On Creativity
• Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing,
taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and
having fun (Mary Lou Cook).
• The world is but a canvas to the imagination
(Henry David Thoreau).
• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a
ridiculous beginning (Albert Camus).
• To draw, you must close your eyes and sing
(Pablo Picasso).
• Creativity is the quality that you bring to the
activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an
inner approach – how you look at things . . .
Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do
it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely
economical, then it is creative (Osho).
4. On Creativity
• Creativity - like human life itself - begins
in darkness (Julia Cameron).
• Every act of creation is first of all an act of
destruction (Pablo Picasso).
• If you're not failing every now and again,
it's a sign you're not doing anything very
innovative (Woody Allen).
• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For while knowledge defines all we currently
know and understand, imagination points to all
we might yet discover and create (Einstein).
• Ideas shape the course of history (John
Maynard Keynes).
5. What is Creativity?
the tendency to generate or recognize ideas,
alternatives, or possibilities that may be
useful in solving problems, communicating
with others, and entertaining ourselves and
others (Robert E. Franken, “Human
Motivation”).
any act, idea, or product that changes an
existing domain, or that transforms an
existing domain into a new one (Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi, “Creativity - Flow and the
Psychology of Discovery and Invention”).