Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Mind Map



To complement my thoughts on paper, here are some questions I have extrapolated that might help me direct my research:

  • What is creativity/how may it be defined?
  • What is an idea?
  • What is inspiration?
How do we make the most of our creative dispositions? Consider a study of methods, exercises and techniques (and the theories behind them).
  • What does it mean to be innovative in the fashion industry... and who are the innovators?
  • What is the distinction between innovation and creativity?)
  • How important is creativity to well being and social progression?

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Quotes about Creativity... some food for thought

“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.”

- Frank Barron

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

- Charles Mingus


"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You must simply do things."
- Ray Bradbury

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”

- Pablo Picasso