Creativity Development Quotes

I started writing stories as a child.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.

My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the museum's halls and corridors, gallery spaces and shows, over and over. For me, the Cleveland Museum was a school of my very own - the place where my eyes opened, my tastes developed, my ideas about beauty and creativity grew.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

The Congressional Art Competition encourages and cultivates the ingenuity and creativity of young people in our region.

I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.

Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own. When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.

I grew up with interesting and funny people. We made our own fun. You had to use your imagination.

Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.