Quotes About Artistry

Jobs quoted Picasso: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." He added, "And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

By this point Jobs had poured close to $50 million of his own money into Pixar—more than half of what he had pocketed when he cashed out of Apple—and he was still losing money at NeXT. He was hard-nosed about it; he forced all Pixar employees to give up their options as part of his agreement to add another round of personal funding in 1991. But he was also a romantic in his love for what artistry and technology could do together.

Let the perfect be the enemy of the good. When Leonardo could not make the perspective in the Battle of Anghiari or the interaction in the Adoration of the Magi work perfectly, he abandoned them rather than produce a work that was merely good enough. He carried around masterpieces such as his Saint Anne and the Mona Lisa to the end, knowing there would always be a new stroke he could add.

I always understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was really important was the care that was put into it.

Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.

Jobs thought of himself as an artist, and he encouraged the design team to think of ourselves that way too," said Hertzfeld. "The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer," Jobs told Fortune shortly after retaking the reins at Apple. "But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

Only in the eleventh paragraph, at the end, did he add that he was also an artist. "Likewise in painting, I can do everything possible," he wrote.

like it. It sounded almost disco, and he gloomily argued that Dylan had been going downhill since Blood on the Tracks. So Hertzfeld moved the needle to the last song on the album, "Dark Eyes," which was a simple acoustic number featuring Dylan

Hey, if we're going to make things in our life, we might as well make them beautiful.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes

Aquello reforzó mi convicción de lo que era realmente importante: grandes creaciones en lugar de ganar dinero, devolver tantas cosas al curso de la historia y de la conciencia humana como me fuera posible».

innovación. Creo que los grandes artistas y los grandes ingenieros se parecen, porque ambos sienten el deseo de expresarse.

Freedom was a foundation for creativity.

We will be one step down from the Creator, she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. Imagining a world and then making it.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.