Charles Mingus Quotes

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

If it's simple simple, it's boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make you think and rethink.

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

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Talent works, genius creates.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

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.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

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.