Karen Armstrong Quotes

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Imagination rules the world.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Definition is the death of discovery.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.