Newton N. Minow Quotes

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

Talent works, genius creates.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I just want to be able to be creative.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I don't study; I create.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

There's no map for being an artist.

Always push to be creative.

I care about being creative and productive.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.