Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes

In a time of destruction, create something.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

A playwright can drop a little acid in the water and it washes away a lot of rust.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

I certainly would not call myself creative. There are other coaches who are innovative and everything else. I wouldn't be that guy, that's for sure.

I need to be creative all the time.

Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

If you look at the world today, there are as many solutions as there are problems. I think that is a big part of creativity. That's why I started Urban Zen. Because I wanted to dress and address people.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Creativity allows people to be effective.