A friend of mine sent this to me. I don't know who said it, but I believe it:

"What is the difference between a producer and a creator? A producer
knows the right way of doing a thing. The most economical way of doing a
thing; with the least amount of effort he can create more results. He is
a producer. A CREATOR fools around. He does not know what is the right
way to do a thing so he goes on seeking and searching again and again in
different directions. Many times he moves in a wrong direction - but
wherever he moves, he learns; he becomes more and more rich. He does
something that nobody has ever done before. If he had followed the RIGHT
way to do things he would not been able to do it - for that would not be
creativity, but only imitation.

When AMBITION enters, creativity disappears-because an ambitious man
cannot be creative, an abmitious man cannot love any activity for it's own
sake. While he is painting, he is thinking, "When am I going to get a
Nobel Prize?" When he is writing a song, he is looking ahead, he is always
in the future - and a CREATIVE person is always in the present.

MONEY is one of the most uncreative things one can become interested in.
A man who is after money will become destructive because money has to be
robbed, exploited; it has to be taken away from many people, only then can
you have it.

POWER simply means you have to make many people impotent; you have to
destroy them; only then can you be powerful.

A CREATIVE act enhances the beauty of the world it gives something to the
world, it never takes anything from it. A creative person comes in to the
world, enhances the beauty of the world - a song here, a book there. He
makes the world dance better, enjoy better, love better, meditate better.
When he leaves this world, he leaves a better world behind him. Nobody
may know him, somebody may know him - that is not the point - but he
leaves the world a better world, tremendously fulfilled because his life
has been of some intrinsic value."