Creativity Quotes

"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." "Our greatest achievements are born from our explorations of the unknown." "Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees but thinking what no one else has thought." "We of the sun, we living creatures " "Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread " "The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power"