Lewis Mumford Quotes about Creativity

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

Art, Creativity, Cities

"The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Lewis Mumford

Creativity, Artist, Carpe Diem

Order and creativity are complementary.

Lewis Mumford

Creativity, Order, Chaos

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

Lewis Mumford

Creativity, Men, Order

Lewis Mumford (1967). “The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich