Quotes About Creativity

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

I don't think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.

When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'

If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

When you look at how the sports world is changing, you have to figure out how to become different than everyone else.

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'

Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

The reality of my life is it's about 25 percent music, and everything else I do is so I can get that 40 minutes later to go play. And it is unquestionably worth every second of it.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.