Edwin Land Quotes

Creative collaboration is awesome.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

Imagination is something you do alone.

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.