John Taylor Gatto Quotes

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

Always push to be creative.