Paul Cezanne Quotes

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.