Charles Bukowski Quotes

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Good writing is always new.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

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

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

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

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

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

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

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

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.

I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.

I believe in creative work.

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