Jack Antonoff Quotes

Originality provokes originality.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.

If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.