creativity Quotes

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

Painting completed my life.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.