Quotes on Creative Genius

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color