I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I think sometimes – not always – I write songs that are accessible.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

All art is quite useless.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I create stars.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

I like to be creative.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.