Creative Intellectual Gifts

Stephen Spender.

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

'Let's not go by the book.'

Copycats

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'The creative process works best with a relaxed brain, so I'm letting my mind wander to let a solution drift in.'

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

' A good idea '

College. Did you pick a major yet? I'm doing a double major in art and logic --- I want to draw my own conclusions!

"She's been so creative lately."

"Of all the buildings I've designed, it's probably the most handsome."

"Either that's Marmaduke with a lizard's head in front of us, or I really mixed up my meds."

What can I do? He says it's his thinking cap.

'The secret to doing a book report is only picking books that have been made in to movies.'

"I just love the way you're so endlessly inventive in the bedroom."

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

Empty box of ideas

Use your imagination.

"Just because I can deliver toys around the world in one night, doesn't mean I understand the tax code."

Eureka!

'According to creation mathematicians, all of Euclid's theories were originally found etched into rocks.'

"Wait 'til my Dad hears about this!"

"If I can't ask for more wishes, how about more genies?"

Problem Solving: Man rows desert island to land.

Characters jumping out of a book.

Deep in the heart of the RAND think tank, the world's greatest scientists would gather to brainstorm Batman's fight sounds.

A resourceful girl, Cynthia hoped to get credit in both Earth Sciences and Culinary Arts with her ozone layer cake.

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"Seth, here, is one of the best young creative compromisers in the business."

Edison: The Early Years,

'You're a genius, Hoppy!'