creativity Quotes

Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.