Quotes About Innovation

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

Surprise is key in all art.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.