Bruce Hornsby Quotes

I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

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

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

Nothing really came, everything was like inspired by something.

The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.