Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds
“Too many families and schools discourage creativity. I left home because I was determined to do what I wanted to do.”- Edward Albee, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright “It’s my belief that an artist should give people new glasses and a new cubistic approach to looking at themselves."-Julie Taymor, Theater and Film Director “I’m always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.”- James Rosenquist, Artist “I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path."- Daniel Libeskind, Architect “If you think “I want to be famous,” or “I want to make a lot of money,” my sense is that you don’t go into most creative jobs.”- David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-wiining author “The motivation for creativity is most often the need to express your ideas to other people.”- Spike Lee, Film Director “We knew we had something so huge that Steve (Jobs) and I couldn’t do it by ourselves.”- Steve Wozniak, Co-founder of Apple Computer “I have always felt that, for me, creativity was really using excess energy.”- Dale Chihuly, Renowned Glass Sculptor “People get enraged at me because they think women should not write about the things I write about, because the things that I write about, in some way, break with their notion of what a woman should be.”- Erica Jong, Best-selling Author“There’s a conflict between professionalism that calls for minimizing risk, while creativity encourages risk.”- Milton Glaser, Designer