Joseph Joubert Quotes

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Art is science in the flesh.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

I take references from the past and flip them.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Architecture is invention.

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

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.