Combinatorial Creativity
“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the CinematographerAlara added 6mo ago
It’s okay to borrow ideas, but you have to make them your own.
sari added 9mo ago
From Jorge Luis Borges:
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
sari added 1y ago
- "the things that inspire me the most are the intersection points, kind of intersections between two things that were never intersected before... Steve Jobs did this fantastically with calligraphy and computers, James Terrell with astronomy and web architecture..." Josh at the Browser Company on the Moth Minds podcast
Alara added 1y ago
- Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.
alex added 1y ago
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