Russell Simmons Quotes

Imagination is the air of mind.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

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

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.