Quotes About Creativity

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

And the nearest season is imagination.

Today there are some worship artists doing well, but when you buy their latest album you don't expect any difference from the previous three. This doesn't seem to do justice to the awesome creative power of almighty God. Serving up the same old, same old is never on the menu for God.

Genius is not about conforming to societal norms, but about breaking free from them and forging new paths.

Leser und Schreiber sind also uneinverstandene Leute. Leute, die sich nicht abgefunden haben. Noch nicht. Hätten sie sich abgefunden, wären sie zufrieden mit sich und allem, würden sie nicht mehr lesen und schreiben, sondern gingen andauernd in die Oper.

Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

Guitarists always start in the bedroom

I like playing my guitar when I expect nothing from it.

In the republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes to grab a poem fluttering from the sky, blinded by weeping.

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

Even back in the command-and-control days of the production line, Henry Ford's decision to manufacture automobiles was driven by intuition rather than market research. "If we had asked the public what they wanted," he explained, "they would have said 'faster horses.

Great ideas are not polite. They never say they're sorry. They don't try to fit in. On the contrary, they force the world around them to make changes in self-defense.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. —Aristotle

Miles Davis once said: "Do not fear mistakes—there are none.

Creativity is the discipline you use when you don't know the answers, when you're traveling to parts unknown. On this type of journey, missteps are actually steps. Every mistake brings you closer to the solution.

They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind. So I left 'em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.

All the lessons of invention come down to this: The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

New ideas capture and possess the mind that births them," said Robert Grudin in The Grace of Great Things. "They colonize it and renew its laws.

your mind, not in your hand. It should get you out from the covers and into your projects as fast as possible. And it should reveal its deeper wisdom reading

The hallmark of innovation is surprise. No surprise, nothing new. Nothing new, no interest. No interest, no value. Therefore, creating surprise is a crucial step in creating value through innovation.

If you find it hard to describe your idea, don't fix your description. Fix your idea.

It now seems possible, even necessary, to reconnect art with science, synthesis with analysis, magic with logic.

Make a sketch, construct a model, or assemble a prototype. Then another. And another. With each attempt, you'll reveal new possibilities for innovation. Your mind will talk to your hands, and your hands will talk to your mind. This dialogue is called generative thinking, and it happens only when you're making something. It's the active ingredient of design.

What you need beyond that is a facile imagination and the skills to apply it, driven by a passionate will toward a focused goal.