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"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

James Rosenquist working on 'The Persistence of Electrical Nymphs in Space,' c.1985. Photo: Gianfranco Gorgoni

“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


Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1975 prior to founding Apple Computer. Courtesy of Margaret Wozniak.

“We knew we had something so huge that Steve 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


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