Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.
Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off not watching it as an actor. Otherwise you end up trying to copy someone else.
The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.
