'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
