Quotes about Creativity

students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

Initiative is a little like creativity in that both require curiosity. Not the search for the "right" answer, as much as an insatiable desire to understand how something works and how it might work better.

Try not to get caught up in the echo chamber. That is probably the toughest thing when you are trying to break out and do something original.

Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.)

Art is what we call it when we're able to create something new that changes someone.

A Nine-Year-Old Kid Can Do Edgecraft While the edges always change, the process never does. Here's how you do it: Find a product or service that's completely unrelated to your industry. Figure out who's winning by being remarkable. Discover which edge they went to. Do that in your own industry.

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.