Damon Galgut Quotes

Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

I like to think limitlessly, and you can't be limitless if you're constantly looking at best practices.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.