Alan Garner Quotes

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

In my mind, creativity is consciousness.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Creativity is about a reaction.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

I know it's strange, but I've always had a better time with other people's wild ideas. Coming up with my own is a deeply emotional and challenging thing to do.

Creative instinct is personal.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

An idea is a feat of association.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.