Richard Florida Quotes

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

Creating content, creating art, material, being a job creator - it's all very, very important. Very important.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.

The male quality is the creative gift.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Only the poor can create art.

Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.