Category Archives: Quotes

Some Creative Inspiration for the New Year!

Posted on 10 January 2013 by

This is a wonderful view of creativity and a great way to start off a new year! Fantastic attitude! Watch this video as IDEO founder David Kelley discusses the creativity within all of us on Charlie Rose and you will … Continue reading →

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More Creative Inspiration from Photographer Joel Meyerowitz

Posted on 3 January 2013 by

A photography class and creative inspiration from photographer Joel Meyerowitz. In this wide-ranging video Meyerowitz discusses the value of innocence and experience, photographing the “elements”, getting beyond our comfort zones, photographing Ground Zero in NYC after 9/11 and how photography … Continue reading →

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Great quote from Pablo Picasso on creativity

Posted on 29 November 2012 by

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso Inspiring! How can you use your creativity to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary?

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Joel Meyerowitz inspired by Robert Frank

Posted on 27 November 2012 by

Joel Meyerowitz talks about the day he met Robert Frank and realized that photography was a “medium that was open to incredible physical, sensual and even a spiritual dimension.” He was so inspired in fact that he went back to … Continue reading →

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Encouragement to think creatively from Einstein

Posted on 20 November 2012 by

“The significant problems we face in life cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” –  Albert Einstein This explains a lot about creative blocks! How can we expect to create new … Continue reading →

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Some Interesting Insights Into the Art World

Posted on 20 September 2012 by

Here are some interesting insights into the art world from infamous art writer Anthony Haden-Guest including this quote from Phaidon’s website: Tell us something about the art world that no one knows? When I was at college, if you talked to … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on Photography and Creativity

Posted on 19 September 2012 by

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange Description Photography provides a unique way for us to interact with and thus understand the world. With it we can create snapshots at … Continue reading →

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The Creative Genius Of Edward Weston

Posted on 16 July 2012 by

Artists struggle in “the new” all the time. Creating form where there was none. Edward Weston’s Daybooks are full of his thoughts as explored the medium of photography and created what we now consider to be “the standards”. I find … Continue reading →

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Learning More About Creativity & Innovation From Steve Jobs

Posted on 9 July 2012 by

As I continue reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs I have been thinking about Jobs’s assertion that people don’t know what they want. He didn’t believe in focus groups and market research as a way of developing products but … Continue reading →

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Learn About Creativity & Innovation From Steve Jobs

Posted on 25 June 2012 by

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile. That’s because … Continue reading →

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