Erich Fromm Quotes

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Creativity takes courage.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.