Antoni Gaudi Quotes

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

What writing does is to reveal.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.