A Quote by Jean Dubuffet

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

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Creativity Imagination Imagination And Creativity Lack Means Normal

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Jean Dubuffet
French - Artist
July 31, 1901 - May 12, 1985

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

Denise Levertov

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

Lyle Lovett

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Ken Robinson

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

Joe Carnahan

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Lionel Stander

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

Virginia Woolf

Henry Corbin creates the world - most of all his examination of the imagination and what the imagination was for him. Some philosophers would think of the imagination as a synthetic ability, how you put different things together. Artists more think of the imagination as creativity. So I really like the way that he presents the imagination as a faculty that allows one to experience worlds that are not exactly physical but are real nonetheless.

Ben Chasny

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.

Amy Dacyczyn

The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.

Geoffrey Moore

Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean chaos, bedlam, and pandemonium. What a tragic lack of political imagination to think that leaders and centralized structures are the only way to organize effective political projects!

Michael Hardt

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

William Wordsworth

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.