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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician’s discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as “identities” that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.