Fabiola Gianotti Quotes

Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

Creativity is making a good pass at the right time... but it can also come from deeper, there should always be a balance.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.