Creativity Quotes

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." "Being an actor is like being a magician. You show something to the audience, but you never reveal the secrets." "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." "Where is the creativity? Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience." "If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build." "All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b) not having done it before, ever." "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative" "Innovation is the primary driving force behind development" "Originality is really important." "Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting." "The mind is the most powerful tool we have for creating the life we want" "For us, the most important thing we can do is raise people up—that is, either by giving the ability to do things they could not otherwise do, allow them to create things they couldn’t otherwise create. It’s about giving them tools; it is about empowering people" "Ideas are worthless without the execution; execution is pointless without the ideas." "The creative person, by necessity, must come to be at odds with the majority"