Ken Robinson Creativity Quotations

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

We get educated out of creativity.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

Creativity is as important as literacy

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.