Quotes About Creativity

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

Mathematics should be fun.

I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.

My education was an education by movies.

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.