Keith Jarrett Quotes

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

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

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Creativity is what transforms.

I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.

Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

I think it's better to have ideas.

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.