Edwin Catmull Quotes

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.

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.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I'm interested in creating new work.

I love to be creative.

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

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.

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

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

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

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

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.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

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

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

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

Every problem has a creative solution.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.