Edward Hopper Quotes

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

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

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.