Creative Disruption Quotes

The best art is either political or revolutionary....Those things that are powerfully revolutionary are not always successful in the market place.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.

Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.

Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?