Maurice Saatchi Quotes

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Creativity is the power to act.

We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

The creative processes are so mysterious.