Visionary Concepts Quotes

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

Small ideas that turn into big ideas - that really inspires me.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency