Creativity Decoded

"Creativity is about something FRESH. Looking at things not as they are but as they could be.  Being creative means to me a life worth living. My freedom, my escape my therapy." -  S. Thornton (mixed media artist)

"Creativity is the ability to create something from nothing. Artists like musicians use silence as their canvas.  They arrange sounds and make music into an empty space and based on what you hear and perceive, the listener will decide what is good music or bad music, but you can not deny the art in the space of silence because ones you turn off the music all you have is silence. Creativity is putting different levels of your imaginations, experience, energy and channeling them into something totally different, something that has not existed at that particular point in time." -  Laolu Senbanjo (artist/musician/lawyer)

"Creativity is about refusing to be fearful. Human existence is a paradox: we reward creative thinking yet the most dominant social forces in the world encourage us to conform.  When we reject the pressure to conform we face the fear of standing alone but at the same time we realize our creative selves. Facing that fear is the hardest part of being creative,  its also the easiest thing to do because all you are really doing is listening to your true self." - SoTeeOh (photographer)

"We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are." We have to constantly create and to work on our dreams and by doing that we have to change our thinking into a positive one, into one where we believe in our dreams." -  Andrada Puşcaş (graphic designer)

Creativity is the ability to think outside the box and connect dots in ways other people haven't before. But let's not kid ourselves, we always rely on others to put the dots there in the first place. Everything is a remix.  - Kai Brach  (publisher of Offscreen Magazine /web designer)

''Creativity is about challenging the status quo, doing something unexpected.  Creativity can come from anywhere.'' - Emmanuel Afolabi (Photographer)

"In my opinion, true creativity is the unique ability to transform inspiration into new ideas. All artists feed off of inspiration and (while in the state of euphoria) attempt to create.  The difference is that some artists posses the ability to separate themselves from what inspires them just enough that what they create is not a clone/imitation/reiteration etc.  Creativity is an art in itself. A passionate struggle. Flowing freely outside of everything that has been done already (as nearly everything has) seems virtually impossible, so the strategy now is to learn how to re imagine ideas and allow them to manifest  alongside your own unique abilities.  Inspiration can come from anything which in turn means creativity is formless. The most mundane elements of life can spark the mind- understanding this and seeking it out is one of the most valuable tools anyone can possess. There are levels to creativity.. I could go on forever.. creativity is an art...

"Creativity is the translation into space and time, of passion and necessity.  It is the conduit through which life and love find their voice." -  Brianna McCarthy (mixed media visual communicator)