“Too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured.” Maya Angelou

Brian E. Young
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. It is our shame and our loss when we discourage people from being creative. We set apart those people who should not be set apart, people whom we assume don’t have a so-called artistic temperament, and that is stupid.

“Too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be a climate in which new ways of thinking, perceiving, questioning are encouraged. People also have to feel they are needed.”

Maya Angelou (Bell Telephone Magazine, 1982)

    Brian E. Young

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    I’m a graphic designer, classical pianist and artist in Baltimore, MD. I host the Uncanny Creativity Podcast about Art and Design Productivity