John Corigliano Quotes

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

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

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

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

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

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

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

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.