Quotes about Creativity
The ability to concoct plausible lies is a talent not to be underestimated
— Margaret Atwood
Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.
— Margaret Atwood
How easy it is to invent humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.
— Margaret Atwood
What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?
— Margaret Atwood
That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.
— Margaret Atwood
Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.
— Margaret Atwood
Technology alone is not enough.
— Steve Jobs
The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.
— Steve Jobs
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
— Martha Graham
...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.
— Albert Einstein
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
— Henri Matisse
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.
— Malcolm Muggeridge