Kanye West Quotes

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

You can't rush inspiration.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.'

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.