Creative Logic Quotes

Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

My stupid ambition is to make a film that's not like any other - one that has its own kind of logic and hooks viewers without making them think too much. It's a film I'd love to see, one in which after 10 minutes the audience isn't able to predict the whole thing.

what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.

It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful, because I like to work from nature - although I do use a photograph - because I think that any detail from nature has a logic I would like to see in abstraction as well.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic. If you stop asking what they mean, or what they remind you of, and just look at them for 29 seconds, you find that they want to explain themselves and show you how much every tiniest detail is related to the whole.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.