Absent Quote by Mary Oliver

Some people in our society specialise in stopping creative people from doing what they do.

— Manoj Kumar

“Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching…

— Haruki Murakami

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

— Ken Robinson

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

— Janice Tanton

The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other…

— Roger von Oech

We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.

— Paula Scher

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

— Henri Matisse

The way creative people live is different from people who don't do anything creative.

— Kerli

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his…

— Caitlin Thomas

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

— Ken Robinson

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

— Andrea Dworkin