Pecha Kucha: Fostering Creativity in and through Art

Nancy WalkupElementary Art Teacher, Denton, Texas

Editor, SchoolArts Magazine

The future belongs to creative people. Dan Pink

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. Earl Nightingale

It is a happy talent to know how to play. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creative vision contains a playful quality. John Briggs

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. Albert Einstein

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative arts, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Marianne Williamson

You cannot use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play. Abraham Maslow

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. Frank Gehry

Creative work is play. Stephen Nachmanovitch

Whoever wants to understand much must play much. Goffried Benn

In art, everyone who plays, wins. Robert Genn

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling

People tend to forget that play is serious. David Hockney

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung

What we play is life. Louis Armstrong