John Trudell Quotes

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

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.

Imagination decides everything.

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

Ideas are the root of creation.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

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

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

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