“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.”
“If you ever find that you re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
“You have to do stuff that average people don t understand because those are the only good things.”
“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don t just stick there scowling at the problem. But don t make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people s words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient. [The Guardian, 25 February 2010]”
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ”
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
“Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.”
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
“Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You ve already let them beat your creativity out of you!”
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man s physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
“Creativity is as important as literacy”
“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
“Imitation is suicide.”