Jacqueline Leo Quotes

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I'm a creator at heart.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Talent works, genius creates.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

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

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I'm interested in creating new work.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Creativity is an import-export business.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

The thing about covers that's relatively important to remember is that it doesn't matter how good an artist you are: if you don't have good ideas, the covers don't stand out.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don't let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, "honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry." Good to remember.

Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.