Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen. Many discoveries would be inconceivable without the prior knowledge, without the intellectual and social network that stimulated creative thinking, and without the social mechanisms that recognized and spread the innovations.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
Collective Thinking
Creativity
Oversimplification
Sometimes a tree can tell you more than can be read in a book.
Carl Jung
A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.
Creativity
Curiosity
Inspiration
It is better to be good than to be original.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architect and the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture.
Creativity & Ideas
Living Spaces
Rules can be broken – but never ignored.
David Jury
A writer, award-winning graphic designer and the head of the MA course of Art at the Colchester Institute.