Sigmund Freud Quotes

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

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.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

I listen to kids play a lot.

I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.

Kids want to build things, and we encourage them to be as imaginative as possible on the site.

Children are resilient - they can always find a way to play.

All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them had. Absolute geniuses. You can recognize their harmonies among thousands.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.