Tibor Kalman Quotes

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

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

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

A poem is no place for an idea.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

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

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I believe in creative work.