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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. -- Yoko Ono
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans. -- Yoko Ono
Lady Gaga not a diva, and she's not crazy. She's just an incredibly nice, down-to-earth person who really cares about art and creativity. It's pretty amazing to be able to work with her. I'm pretty grateful for that. -- Evan Peters
There seems to be art and creativity everywhere, whether it was in the galleries of Jaffa or along the streets of Jerusalem ... the creativity blows my mind because you can see that people want to live their lives to the fullest. -- Guillermo Diaz
It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything. -- Jeannette Walls
I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy. -- Misty Upham
My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity. -- Chen Guangbiao
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity. -- Gary Wright
When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within. -- Susan Vreeland
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. -- Victor Pinchuk
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger. -- Douglas Coupland
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. -- F. Sionil Jose
I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda. -- Beck
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. -- Pranab Mukherjee
In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity. -- Joel Edgerton
I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist. -- Eric Fischl
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' -- Kanye West
Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art. -- Jodie Foster
After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me. -- Angela Cartwright
I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, 'Don't you think you'll need something to fall back on?' They acted as though creativity was completely normal. -- Julia Cameron
Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! -- Camille Paglia
Art is a subset of creativity. -- Chase Jarvis
Curiosity is the art of creativity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Creativity is the art of the impossible -- Ben Okri
I think the idea of art kills creativity. -- Douglas Adams
Creativity is the art of concealing your sources. -- Coco Chanel
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggleâ?¦ -- Lou Dorfsman
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. -- Mickey Hart
Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive. -- James Kelman
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. -- Edward de Bono
Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity. -- Betty Dodson
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity. -- Bruce Lee
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. -- Edward Sapir
I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors. -- Vasily Smyslov
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God. -- Francis Schaeffer
Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones. -- Carl Jung
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity. -- Chris Brown
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity. -- Chris Brown
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small. -- David Rockefeller
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ. -- William Bernbach
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. -- David Rockefeller
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity. -- Jack Bowman
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art. -- Bruce Lee
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Tony Robbins
Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival. -- Terry Tempest Williams
What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art. -- Jodie Foster
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life. -- Sarah Curran
Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change. -- Antanas Mockus
Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba. -- Rachael Price
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music. -- Kanye West
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art. -- Semir Zeki
I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity. -- Douglas Coupland
The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation. -- Rajneesh
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. -- Lewis Mumford
I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art. -- Steve Coogan
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. -- Bob Blumer

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