Quotes about Creativity
Aldous Huxley, who was once a copywriter, said, 'It is easier to write ten passably effective sonnets than one effective advertisement.' You cannot bore people into buying your product. You can only interest them in buying it.
— David Ogilvy
Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees
— David Ogilvy
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it… Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
— David Ogilvy
Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.
— David Ogilvy
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don't want you to tell me that you find it 'creative.' I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.
— David Ogilvy
Never a day without a line.
— Anonymous
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
— Marilyn Monroe
Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.
— Albert Einstein
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
— John F. Kennedy
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
— Victor Hugo
The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.
— JM Coetzee
Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.
— Maya Angelou