Creative Industries Quotes:

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Technology, Creative, Wells, Creative Industries

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

- Harry Belafonte

topic: Artist, Anchors, Civilization, Gatekeepers, Creative Industries

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

- George Lois

source: "10 Tips For Success From George Lois, The Original Mad Man" by Belinda Lanks, www.fastcodesign.com. August 24, 2012.

topic: Moving, Creative, Facts, Creative Industries

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.

- Kristen Bell

topic: Creative, Complaints, Creative Industries

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

- David Puttnam

topic: Technology, Creative, Digital, Digital Technology, Creative Industries

The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.

- Alvin Lustig

topic: Giving, Sticks, Designer, Incompleteness, Undefined

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

- Aberjhani

topic: Creative, Tragedy, Helping, Creative Industries

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

- James Dyson

topic: Agency, Engineering, Creative, Creative Industries

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

- Andrew O'Hagan

topic: Order, People, Creative, Creative Industries

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

- Sara Sheridan

topic: Wall, Thinking, Scotland, Creative Industries, Hadrian

The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.

- Marc Newson

source: "No. 3: The Rise of Wearable Technology" by Sharon Edelson, wwd.com. December 19, 2014.

topic: Fashion, Design, Creative, Fashion Industry, Creative Industries

The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.

- Christian Siriano

topic: Fashion, Fun, Gay, Heidi, Creative Industries