Quotes About Invention

Be creative. Remember that we only learnt how to fly when we stopped imitating birds.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Science is our century's art.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter