Quotes about Creativity

What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

Heretics must believe. More than anyone else in an organization, it's the person who's challenging the status quo, the one who is daring to be great, who is truly present and not just punching a clock who must have confidence in her beliefs. Can you imagine Steve Jobs showing up for the paycheck? It's nice to get paid. It's essential to believe.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

Art is original. Marcel Duchamp was an artist when he pioneered Dadaism and installed a urinal in a museum. The second person to install a urinal wasn't an artist, he was a plumber.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.

Life's too short to fight the forces of change. Life's too short to hate what you do all day. Life's way too short to make mediocre stuff.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.