Unconventional Approaches Quotes

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

I feel it would be a huge mistake for 'Vogue' always to be completely tasteful, completely perfect. I think it's very important for us to also rock the boat.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

My tendency is to be very experimental.

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

‎We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.