Creativity Quotes

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall." "Live out of your imagination, not your history." "I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real." "It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do" "What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?" "Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future" "I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box" "There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded" "I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use" "If you are working 24/7, you're not going to have any interesting ideas" "What we do in our group is a mix of creativity, craftsmanship, and business. The three go together" "I see myself as an ambassador of French heritage and French culture. What we create is emblematic" "I want to see thirst inside the syllables" "Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected" "The American dream is not about what you can consume. It's about what you have the power to create." "Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible" "The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity" "To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk loss" "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep" "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return"