Separate the processes of creation from improving. You can't write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don't select. While you sketch, don't inspect. While you write the first draft, don't reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgement.
Creativity
The art of bringing something new into existence
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Creativity and critical thinking: In subordinate position it gets you labelled a dreamer, a weirdo, or an idiot. In executive position, visionary, maverick, multidisciplinary thinker, etc. You can only be truly creative in a position with autonomy, so you either climb the ladder or start your own thing.
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
The creative adult is the child who survived.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
To create one's own world takes courage.
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.
You can't force creativity to happen. But you can set up the circumstances in which it happens.
Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.