If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

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

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

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?‘

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

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

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

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

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You’re not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

No great thing is created suddenly.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.