Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

I admire people who are creative.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

Looking back now, if I went to film school, it probably would have helped knowing what the best of the best of foreign films were, but that wasn't the case. In some ways, I think that led to my originality, because I hadn't seen anybody else.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

I find myself, the more I grow up the more I hang around creatives, musicians. I find them more inspiring to be around. I'd probably say that. The more creative you are - I get along with them better. There is more of an understanding.

They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

The principal 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 discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.