Quotes About Creativity

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.