Ken Robinson Quotes

I'm interested in creating new work.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

Creative instinct is personal.

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

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.

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

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Creativity is the art of the impossible