Joseph Bologna Quotes

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

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

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

I'm a cliche.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.