Steve Jobs Quotes

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.