The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain
The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain
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Other Creativity :
- I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
- I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
- I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
- Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
- There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
- Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.
- Sometimes letting go is the best solution.
- Good writing is both what one does and does not say.
- Begining with the end in mind for either solving the problem or creating a strategy.
- The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
- When in despair… when in fear… when in doubt… make something.
- Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
- If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
- It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.
- The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
- You can understand conflict, but you don’thave to live in it.
- Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.
- Design speaks to the soul.
- Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
