Quotes About Innovation

Mystery is at the heart of creativity.

We forget that the imagination-at-play is at the heart of all good work.

Creativity lives in paradox: serious art is born from serious play.

Do not fear mistakes," Miles Davis told us. "There are none.

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

We must wait for an idea to hatch.

Typically, the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. AGNES DE MILLE

Para vivir una vida creativa debemos perder el miedo a estar equivocados». JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI

This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Creativity requires action, and part of that action must be physical.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

When I wasn't at school, I was experimenting at home, and became a bit of a Mad Scientist. I did hours of research on mayonnaise, for instance, and though no one else seemed to care about it, I thought it was utterly fascinating....By the end of my research, I believe, I had written more on the subject of mayonnaise than anyone in history.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

Tossing the chalk thoughtfully for a moment, I decided what to do. I wrote 'The cat sat on the mat' once in copperplate English, then translated into Latin, then French and finally, for good measure, in Italian.

We don't always want to read about everyday things – and that silly stuff is so much fun to parody.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn't matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...

There's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Aeronautics did not lead to democracy, unless budget airlines count.

Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy.

I think a great book—leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on—is a book that describes the world in a way that has not been done before; and that is recognized by those who read it as telling new truths—about society or the way in which emotional lives are led, or both—such truths having not been previously available, certainly not from official records or government documents, or from journalism or television.