The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient read more

The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my read more

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

No great thing is created suddenly.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Some people see things and ask Why?
I dream things which never were and askWhy not?

Some people see things and ask Why?
I dream things which never were and askWhy not?

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.