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Creativity has a simple formula. Take a spoonful of knowledge, add a
pinch of stimulation and poof! a new idea appears.
See also
art, being creative, challenge, contradiction, connections, copying,
deviation, ideas*, inspiration, invention, science, tension*
Quotes
‘It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of
walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which…you may
find really marvellous ideas.’
— Leonardo Da Vinci
‘The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human
race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and
scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it
generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to
speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.’
— Albert Einstein
‘The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative
mind.’
— Albert Einstein
‘God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets
of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.’
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive
nuisance to you.’
— Gustav Holst
‘Sit in reverie and watch the changing colour of the waves that break upon the
idle seashore of the mind.’
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
‘Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew
on.’
— Alex Osborn
‘When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for
creation.’
— Margaret Sackville
‘There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate
incredible dullness.’
— Henry David Thoreau
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