Ken Robinson Quotes

Definition is the death of discovery.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.

I like when things are completely absurd. I like when people take risks. I want to be able to challenge myself and challenge the viewer and challenge the back of our mind - the subconscious mind.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.