“Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.”

In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that ‘stand for’ things they see in the world around them… Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine… when children develop a passion for realism.

We’ve got a name for sushi in Georgia… bait

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience… to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.

As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially.

Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight.

Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.

The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

It’s hard to force creativity and humor.

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up.

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.