A few quotes about creativity
… perceiving analogies and other relations between apparently incongruous ideas or forming unexpected, striking or ludicrous combinations of them.
You can take two substances, put them together, and produce something powerfully different (table salt), sometimes even explosive (nitroglycerine).
The more distant and distinct the relationship between the two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image.
… any mental occurrence simultaneously associated with two habitually incompatible contexts.
I’m interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.
Quotes are taken from The Art of Looking Sideways, a great book for spurring your own imagination.