Anthony Head Quotes

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Genius is knowing where to stop.

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.