Creativity Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch Download Open image “Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding.” — Stephen Nachmanovitch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity Findings Inspirational Love
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. — Masaru Ibuka Copy Share Image
The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things. — Ginevra Elkann Copy Share Image
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts. — Yanni Copy Share Image
People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student who is… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away.… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image