Creativity Quotes, page 15

“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”

“If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.”

“A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.”

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I haven't read.”

“True refinement seeks simplicity.”

“Art lives where absolute freedom is, because when it is not, there can be no creativity.”

“The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.”

“To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the desired solution; gather and fill your mind with the facts; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, and settle on the creative ideas.”

“Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.”

“Learning is a constant process of discovery — a process without end.”

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.”

“If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out; it is just a name. Don't fuss over it.”

“What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds body feel and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning, imposes limitation, and squelches creativity.”

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”

“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips.”

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”