“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” Charles Mingus
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The Point of Education – Piaget
“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.” Jean Piaget
Creating Yourself – Jung
“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.” Carl Jung
Creativity and Mistakes – Adams
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams
Secret to Creativity – Einstein
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.“ Albert Einstein
Letting Go – Turner
“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.” Tina Turner
Creative Genius – James
“Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” William James
The Creative Process – Woolf
“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 […]
The Creative Power – Woolf
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” Virginia Woolf
The Essence of Art – Adorno
“A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.” Theodore Adorno
