E. F. Schumacher Quotes

When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

This is the land of every joyous sound, Of liberty and life, sweet liberty! Without whose aid the noblest genius fails, And science irretrievable must die.

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu.

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

I love everything about entrepreneurship and about owning your career and doing what you love to do.

At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Observe, don't imitate.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

There are no wrong notes.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life.

Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.