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Creative Quotes by Stephen Nachmanovitch
- The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling…
- Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.
- Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already…
- If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become…
- The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers…
More Creative Quotes
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want to do something creative, not just easy. — Sebastian Bach
- I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to… — Erykah Badu
- The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself… — David Bailey
- No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal… — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. — Ansel Adams
- The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people… — Steve Ballmer
- My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative… — Eric Bana
- Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in… — Melody Beattie
- Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann