"My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. The creative person is, in any case, continually working at it. His mind is shuffling his information at all times, even when he is not conscious of it."
"The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad."
"Probably more inhibiting than anything else is a feeling of responsibility. The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren't paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all. The great ideas came as side issues."
Isaac Asimov, "On Creativity", MIT Technology Review, vol. 118, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2015 (previously unpublished)
"The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad."
"Probably more inhibiting than anything else is a feeling of responsibility. The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren't paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all. The great ideas came as side issues."
Isaac Asimov, "On Creativity", MIT Technology Review, vol. 118, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2015 (previously unpublished)
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