The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
A good comedy idea is like a good painting idea. You have a sense of how it should look, and you keep adjusting and readjusting.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
In my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting.
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself.
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way.
Many people think we're always referencing movies, but it's the books those movies are based on that are more influential to us.
We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them.
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
Having a rock solid idea of how it all should end is counterproductive. If you're too rigid you may miss wonderful opportunities for storytelling.
Having certain limits on an ability to tell a story makes us work harder.
There's no right way to do television. All that matters is that you find a way that works for you.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Invent options for mutual gain.
When you make something, you always make something else. Just because you can't sell the main dish doesn't mean you can't sell the by-products.
If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: you are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea.
You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.
The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most.
It is necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
