Daniel Bell Quotes

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

With soccer, I have the ability to do things differently. That is why I admire Leonardo da Vinci. He was able to create things other people wouldn't believe in.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

I don't understand how people live without creating.