Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

I didn't see it then but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction and the creative potential within that.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness for speech is itself a critique of life: it names it characterizes it passes judgment in that it creates.

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins downsizes and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Raising children is a creative endeavor an art rather than a science.

Art is creative for the sake of realization not for amusement... for transfiguration not for the sake of play.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Design in art is a recognition of the relation between various things various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it in the fourth dimension. That is with your blood and your bones as well as with your eyes.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment a lightning instant of give-and-take just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

There is a lot of interest in the arts music theatre filmmaking engineering architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

I went to school for engineering I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them so I went to architecture school in New York.

I'm generally quite an angry person and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.