David Bowie Quotes

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

I think it's important to always offer something new.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

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.

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

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.