Quotes About Creativity

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

Poets sing our human music for us.

I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

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

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

I serve society by rocking!

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.