Quotes About Creativity

For the novelist, knowledge is not subdivided into rigidly demarcated compartments, and there are no taboos, no 'disreputable' subjects.

George Bernard Shaw made the point best: 'The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him … The unreasonable man adapts the surrounding conditions to himself … All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

the way to fight Babylon was through music.

It's not the instrument that makes the music beautiful - it's the musician.

the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else.

the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you're doing, you'll do great.

And if I can't get excited about whatever that something else is, I really have trouble doing good work as a designer. To me, the conclusion is inescapable: the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

Not even the Swedes would put camembert and Tandoori sauce in a burger.

Roxy Music became, as Bryan Ferry would observe in 1975, 'above all … a state of mind'.

Before beginning, mark the solemn words of 'Nigel Norris' – a fictitious freelance writer for Rolling Stone, setting out his stall in Howard Schuman's television drama of 1976, Rock Follies, episode three, 'The Road': Norris: 'I think one should apply the same critical standards to rock music as to any other art form.

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and system that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried," Puck

It's because we know that what the popular kids have to offer the world is so tiny and unimportant compared to what the nerds will do. The dorks, dweebs, goobers, and spazzes that you picked on are the ones who will grow up to discover the vaccines, write the great novels, push the boundaries of science and technology, and invent things that make people healthier and happier.

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The aim of theory is not to be boringly right but brilliantly wrong.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

I could say she looks like da Vinci's "Lady with Ermine" if there had ever been such a thing.

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )

Truly divine faculties of intellect and imagination can make gods of us all