Quotes About Innovation

there is something useful about the focal point of a story being an animal...I think it is very important right now, with regard to preservation of nature, to try to inhabit non-human perspectives and to, in some way, use fiction as the laboratory it should be. To explore things that are outside of the norms and not use it for the novel of manners or the thing that has been done before. (from Bloom Aftertalk interview)

Renaissance artist Gregorio Comanini, has counseled the equivalent of "Live an ordinary, regular life so you can be irregular and brilliant in your creativity.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.

It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. El conocimiento es limitado, la imaginación rodea el mundo".

Logica brengt je van A naar B. Verbeelding brengt je overal.

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves. From time to time something happens to shake them out of that groove.

And then there was Ray Charles.

For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager.

Everything was told! Then we could begin something new.

For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.

build-your-own-telescope

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

It might have been done before, but it hasn't been done by you!

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.