Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

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

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes amateurish. It is a trial and error method. But the bottom line is that I want to entertain the audience.

I want to entertain and inspire.

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

Talent works, genius creates.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Imagination decides everything.

Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

I have a very vivid imagination.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

I can't imagine working without and audience.