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"The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love."
"Art takes nature as its model."
"Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off"
"Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool."
"Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity."
"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence."
"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."
"I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever feel like I'm cornered into one expression of creativity because I'm successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it's best to not paint yourself into that corner."
"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together."
"Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe."
"There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want"
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
"Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed."
"Good taste is the enemy of creativity."
"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."
"By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist"
"The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings."
"Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening."
