Quotes about Creativity

When you just copy and paste, you miss that. You just repurpose the last layer instead of understanding all the layers underneath.

It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic. So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

Say no by default If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. —HENRY FORD It

What distinguishes people who are ten times more effective than the norm is not that they work ten times as hard; it's that they use their creativity to come up with solutions that require one-tenth of the effort.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.

Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stenciled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?

It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.