Lee Tae-min Quotes

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

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

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

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

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

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

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

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

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

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

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

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.