Creativity
Possibility is the secret heart of creativity. ~Martin Heidegger


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of knowledge. ~Daniel J Boorstin


Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. ~Harold Rosenberg


The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ~Arthur Koestler


The chances for true creativity are seen in overcoming a dualism which separates the created from the creator. ~Erich Jantsch


Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. ~William James


You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Dare to be naïve. ~Buckminster Fuller


Sophisticated people hardly understand how vague experience is at bottom, and how truly vagueness supports whatever clearness is afterwards attained. ~George Santayana


In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light — only those who have experienced it can understand it. ~Albert Einstein


In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. ~Jacques Martin Barzun


I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ~Kurt Vonnegut


The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. ~William James


Genius is nothing but continued attention. ~Claude Adrien Helvetius


Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. ~Jonas Salk


Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~Albert Einstein


Most new ideas are discovered by perceiving the relationship or analogy between two quite different fields of activity. ~Arthur Koestler


One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~Andre Gide


We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. ~Lewis Thomas


Curiosity is the clay from which all knowledge is formed. ~Mark Evanier


Creativity is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~E. L. Doctorow


Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. ~J. Krishnamurti


It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. ~Wallace Stevens


In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Shunryu Suzuki


The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. ~Pauline Kael


If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~Albert Einstein


Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution. ~Karl Kraus


Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ~Pablo Picasso


The simplest things give me ideas. ~Joan Miró


Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgi


Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. ~Woodrow Wilson


That's the way things become clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. ~Madeline L'Engle