#creative

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#between #complex #creatively #critical #difficult

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#been #conformity #creative #despotism #differences

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

The creative adult is the child who has survived. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#child #creative #survived #who

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative writing #creative writing programs #exist #france #idea

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#beauty #bring #creative #especially #exposed

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#creative #heard #kind #like #most

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#creative #creative people #fit #i #into

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative. ↗

— Jerry Harrison

#being #bigger #business #creates #creative