Josh Cooke Quotes

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

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.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

I have a very vivid imagination.

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

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

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