Zaha Hadid

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

A British Iraqi architect from Baghdad. The "Queen of the curve", who liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity

Architecture

Creativity
Creativity & Ideas

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Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

Keri Smith

Canadian conceptual artist and author of several bestselling books including How to be an Explorer of the World - The Portable Life/Art Museum.

Creativity
Inspiration
Perception

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

John Cage

An American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music and one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.

Creativity
Curiosity
Inspiration

Without creativity, it would be difficult indeed to distinguish humans from apes.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Creativity

It is better to be good than to be original.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architect and the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture.

Creativity & Ideas
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