Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Originality is only variation.

Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.