Diane Paulus Quotes

Creativity is just connecting things.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Creative instinct is personal.

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?

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

Creativity allows people to be effective.

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.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

I'm interested in creating new work.

I love to be creative.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I believe in creative work.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.