Jacques Lipchitz Quotes

To understand is to invent.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

One must be an inventor to read well.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

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

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

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

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a new sauce for the meat, a young author writing his first novel; all of these are in terms of definition, Creative, and there is no attempt to set them in some order of more or less Creative.