Tom Stoppard Quotes

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

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.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

I like to create.

As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.