Hubert Burda Quotes

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

Originality is really important.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.