Creative Application Quotes

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

I think of the Tycho sound as something separate from the band. I think the methodology and approach to production I use on the Tycho records can be applied to a lot of things. But from a performance and songwriting perspective, yes, Tycho is a live band.

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art school, and many of the techniques I learned on canvas, I applied to makeup.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.

I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I studied natural resources planning and thought I could get a job at some marine park. But I was great at art and so-so at marine biology. It's funny how the two eventually came together.

I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.