Arthur Koestler Quotes

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

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. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

You have to think outside the box.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.