Creativity Quotes - Page 38

• These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that under the word "creativity" assumes something much more static than it is. That's why an artist may be marvelous in her 20s, and be creating automatic crap in her 40s. A writer may be trivial in his 20s, and be writing incredibly in his 50s, because those things are always in flux.

  Michael Ventura

  Writing, Artist, Skills

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.

  Michael Ventura

  Religious, Art, Culture

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?

  Michael Ventura

  People, Creative, Culture

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions.

  Michael Ventura

  Self, People, Levels

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

  Michael Ventura

  Flow, Ifs

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.

  Nina Simone

  Song, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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• There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Creative, Humanity, Vision

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• When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Frontiers, Solutions, Advancing

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.

  Greg Cipes

  Children, Kids, Keys

  Source: 411mania.com

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• The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Directors, Building, Architect

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.

  Temple Grandin

  Years, Anxiety, Done

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to implementation. And there is an extraordinary gadget lust that drives the military. So it's possible that war is just the ultimate expression of creativity.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Military, Technology

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Google was the right set of people at the right time, and they ended up doing the right set of things. It's worth looking at how they are managed. They are network-oriented and allow a lot of flexibility and creativity.

  Paul Saffo

  People, Google, Right Time

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think for the women of today, because we work and go around a lot, Armani is ideal - simple and elegant at the same time. It's not eccentric, and everything he does is very subtle. For the evening, I like Gianfranco Ferre. There's a lot of fantasy and creativity in his clothes.

  Sophia Loren

  Simple, Thinking, Clothes

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Thomas Edison had great visions (for lights, music players, movies, etc.) but he knew they didn't count until he could make them work. His statement that creativity is 99% perspiration makes that point. Consider how much time he spent trying to make a synthetic rubber material for tires and never stopped trying but he never succeeded.

  Philip Kotler

  Player, Light, Vision

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• The way the music industry is now geared, it's fewer accolades towards new and upcoming acts. New bands offer bright creativity. It's a set format. A venue would rather hire a DJ than a band, and that's a problem.

  John Lydon

  Band, Way, Problem

  Source: www.axs.com

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• It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities of a fourteen-year-old kid. Some fourteen-year-olds would revel in the book, and some would be very sensitive to it, so you can't afford to worry about that. What I worry about is good taste and getting my message across by whatever means I can.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily basis, and the fact that work never lasts for very long. But you need thin, thin, thin skin in order to access all of your emotions and your creativity so that you can express it. You can't be dead inside. Otherwise you've got nothing to give. So it's a paradox, that we have to exist in both planes in order to do what we do.

  Audra McDonald

  Art, Order, Long

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I think it's absolutely essential to encourage creativity. I think we come in as these wide-eyed sponges, ready to create and absorb and evolve, and I think more often than not we are squashed, the older we get.

  Audra McDonald

  Thinking, Essentials, Sponges

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creative in some way, because I think it's just a part of our genetic makeup.

  Audra McDonald

  Thinking, Makeup, Creative

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or restraints. So, insofar as we can remain a free country that allows for the interplay of personal energies. I think this is still a country that is not only working towards a dream, but actually is the dream in action.

  John Updike

  Country, Dream, Believe

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Only you know what you're trying to accomplish. Any time you're thinking about whether someone's going to like this or not like this, you're f**ked. You've made the decision based in fear. Fear is the cancer to creativity.

  James Ransone

  Cancer, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

  Eli Russell Linnetz

  People, Should, Complete Freedom

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This idea of artistry, this idea of creativity... Ultimately, it has to be just real talk. We have to give a common way for people to access the world around them - even just words and terminology that we know are representative of the future.

  Eli Russell Linnetz

  Real, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is an interesting and new way to be excited about the fashion world today maybe. The traditional path of fashion as simple magazine images has dissolved - we are seeing new and innovative ways to share, create, and enjoy ideas. I am challenged to learn and explore paths of finding new photographers, stylists, and vision-makers online or through direct contact, connecting with ideas and creativity in new ways, and making images with different outlets. Sometimes more unbridled avenues and unconventional ways lead to things I wouldn't have thought of yet.

  Guinevere Van Seenus

  Fashion, Simple, Ideas

  "The Secrets of Guinevere Van Seenus". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2016.

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