Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.