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If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

— William Gibson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

— Yanni

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

— James Russell Lowell

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

— Vik Muniz

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

— Thom Mayne

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

— Ken Robinson

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

— V. S. Naipaul

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

— Roy H. Williams

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

— Jo Brand

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

— Whit Stillman

Manufactured objects testify to who made them; they describe values.

— Jonathan Ive

✗Opposing Perspectives

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