Jacob Bronowski Quotes

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

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.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.

I just like being versatile, giving new styles and being creative.

My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.

Thank God for my imagination. For my abilities to mimic.

With soccer, I have the ability to do things differently. That is why I admire Leonardo da Vinci. He was able to create things other people wouldn't believe in.

In my mind, creativity is consciousness.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

Michael Jackson was a Gemini. Kanye, Lauryn Hill, a lot of people that are amazing artists are Geminis.

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

Art is science in the flesh.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Every human being is an artist