Gail Z. Martin Quotes

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

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

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

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

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Creativity is just connecting things.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

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 the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it's the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.