Abstract Quote by Zaha Hadid

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

— Helmut Jahn

Often creativity comes from a very pragmatic kind of "well, what if we try this. How about this." You set some parameters and then…

— Grant David McCracken

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

— Maria Konnikova

“Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.”

— Pearl Zhu

Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought.

— Arthur Koestler

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

— Bob Dylan

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

— Twyla Tharp

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

— Edward de Bono

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without…

— Robert Grudin

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

— Peter Koestenbaum

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

— Sark

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

— Yanni