Creativity Quotes

"The work of a true social entrepreneur is to think and dream and imagine how the world could be" "You have to work at creating your own culture" "If you go to your grave without painting your master piece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it" "I reject your reality and substitute my own" "In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well" "To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality." "It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head." "In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject." "It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower." "You can't decide to turn creativity on or off. You can't tell yourself to have a good idea. The best you can do is try to create an environment where good ideas can happen" "Music is the shorthand of emotion." "I would love to make beauty and strangeness synonymous" "There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period." "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." "Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way." "There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues." "At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen." "Some people have lives some people have music" "Innovation is what you get when you put human talent into a diverse society." "We are defined not only by what we create but what we refuse to destroy."