Isaac Barrow Quotes

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

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

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.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

Creativity is about a reaction.

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

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

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.