Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

I like being creative.

I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.

If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we're missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

In the early 1970s, I headed to graduate school at the University of Utah and joined the pioneering program in computer graphics because I realized that's where I could combine my interests in art and computer science.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.

You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.