Peter Bart Quotes

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

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

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

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

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

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Imagination comes of not having things.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

Imagination is the air of mind.

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

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.