Quotes About Creativity

It's so embarrassing to just not feel valued as a creative person.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

Wynn laughed. "Well, there's a saying," he mused, "that a moose is a horse made by a committee." We chuckled together at Wynn's joke.

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ'S FIRST cover shoot was Grace Slick.

The special issue was heavy reading: two men who ran for president, plus scientists, political activists, economists, historians, and futurists. I believed we also must always listen to the poets—actors, comedians, musical artists, and writers—for they are scholars of human nature and often have the gift of prophecy.

Does imagination or joy come with limits?

Done without love, any congress between man and woman degrades the creative intelligence that graces your humanity.

She thinks in wild gardens, and his thoughts are espaliered into an introduction with a thesis, then supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. She

invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland's cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy. Perhaps the seasonally variable climate at hight latitudes poses more diverses challenges that does a seasonally constant tropical climate

All of these parallels between Mesoamerican and ancient western Eurasian writing testify to the underlying universality of human creativity. While Sumerian and Mesoamerican languages bear no special relation to each other among the world's languages, both raised similar basic issues in reducing them to writing. The solutions that Sumerians invented before 3000 B.C. were reinvented, halfway around the world, by early Mesoamerican Indians before 600 B.C.

or just inventing a new letter (as our medieval ancestors did when they created the new letters j, u, and w).

All of these parallels between Mesoamerican and ancient western Eurasian writing testify to the underlying universality of human creativity.

New signs were created by combining old signs to produce new meanings: for example, the sign for head was combined with the sign for bread in order to produce a sign signifying eat.

The first cameras, typewriters, and television sets were as awful as Otto's seven-foot-tall gas engine. That makes it difficult for an inventor to foresee whether his or her awful prototype might eventually find a use and thus warrant more time and expense to develop it.

From a patent lawyer's perspective, the ideal invention is one that arises without any precursors, like Athene springing fully formed from the forehead of Zeus. In

Each year, the United States issues about 70,000 patents, only a few of which ultimately reach the stage of commercial production.

Quite a few inventions do conform to this commonsense view of necessity as invention's mother.

It is said that books save lives, but I also say that empty sketchbooks save lives too. I filled up many, and there is no doubt they saved mine.

Seriously. Books like these, they want you to conform to their style. You don't want to have to go make comics for a company that will control your work.

There's no good reason to change a Neil Simon line. The day that I'm funnier than Neil Simon, Hell will be a very chilly place.

the measure of a person was her ideas

Plus, if you're a copycat, you can never keep up. You're always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that's already behind the times—just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That's no way to live.

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.

Disruptive innovation is good. Disruption for the sake of disruption is not. Culture