Creativity Quotes

• Explain in your own words what you think each quote means. Commenton whether you agree/disagree with it.
• Choose 2 quotes you agree with and apply them to any of your ownpieces of coursework.
• Choose 2 quotes you disagree with and explain why, using your owncoursework to support your views.

"A process needed for problem solving...not a special gift enjoyed by a few but a common ability possessed by most people" (Jones 1993)

This comment is referring to creativity being in everybody's reach, but only few choose cultivate it.

Basically the quotes describes everyone as having the ability to creative its not just a gift that only a few people have.

"The making of the new and the re arranging of the old" (Bentley 1997)

This quote could be viewed as making new things through being inspired by taking old elements and 're-arranging' them, basically drawing inspiration from the past and using it to create new  idea's.

"Creativity results from the interaction of a system composed of three elements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain, and a field of experts who recognise and validate the innovation." (Csikszentmihalyi 1996)

"There is no absolute judgement [on creativity] All judgements are comparisons of one thing with another." (Donald Larning)

This quote basically describes the only way that you can judge something creative is if you judge it against something else, because if you had nothing to judge something by how could you justify it as a good or bad thing?

"Technology has taken all the creativity out of media production"

  This quote is basically describing how the use of technology doesn't make make anything creative, but the manipulation of images and effects that you can design and create on different software's enables a person to be very creative.

"A project that is too well planned lacks opportunities for spontaneity and creativity."

I think this quote means that creativity comes from the process of being spontaneous, the fact is that the process of planning stops your idea's from being instantaneous you have to stick to a plan, though I think that planning wouldn't completely stop the ability of the person to be creative during the project

"Media producers can learn nothing from studying the conventions of old texts"
I believe that this theory is not true, because the fact that 'nothing is original' now can be applied to this theory as you can only draw from past experiences to move forward.

"The creation of bringing something new into existence -this particular understanding  of creativity involves the physical making of something, leading to some form of communication, expression or revelation".

(David Gauntlett)

 

I believe that quote means that the creation of some form of creativity allows the person to gain a form of expression or revelation that can only be gained from the physical creation of something.

 

'If creativity is not inherent in human mental powers and is, in fact, social and situational, then technological developments may well be linked to advances in the creativity of individual users. (Banaji, Burn and Buckingham, 2006)'

I think in some ways people can only be creative by themselves and not through the help of technology, but I think some people need a technological input to allow them to channel some form of creativity into there lives.