Pranav Mistry Quotes

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

Da Vinci always seemed like the prototype Tony Stark to me.

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down into a category, like Da Vinci or Jean Cocteau. You could say Cocteau was a great poet but also a film-maker, interested in theatre, sculpture, and could never identify with any of these forms exclusively.

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.

We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.

If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.

I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.

I'm not just a designer; I'm not just a retailer. I'm not just a street style person, whatever that is. I can instead do a little bit of everything.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.