Josef Albers Quotes

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

Art is science in the flesh.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

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

Art is science made clear.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

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

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.