Pablo Picasso Quotes

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

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

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?