William Plomer Quotes

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

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

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

Creative instinct is personal.

Imagination is a form of seeing

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Creativity is just connecting things.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

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

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.