Walter Isaacson Quotes

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

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

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

True play is creativity.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

Imagination needs to be fed.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Definition is the death of discovery.

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

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

Creativity takes courage.

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?