wanted to shoot his parents

Malcom Gladwell and Rick Rubin

 

history's most influential music producer

He's been a fan of music for decades and sometimes his ideas resonate. Flops should be acknowledged. 

bene

"I love to feel insecure. In a way, it makes you feel creative ... it's like life; it's not forever. That's why it's precious."

- Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele [born 1972]

aimless dropout to starchitect

 

neuroscientist and entrepreneurial artist

 

serenity now

“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.”
– T.S. Eliot [1888-1965]

The Art of Advertising

“Many people – and I think I am one of them – are more productive when they’ve had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I’m far better able to write.”
– David Ogilvy

on creativity

“The future is uncertain, but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.”
– Ilya Prigogine

kaleidoscopic imagination

"An inventor needs an enemy."
- Thomas Edison on Alexander Graham Bell; the importance of competition.

mash-up

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

the beauty you cannot see

"You don't have to play every note."
- Thelonious Monk to his band on "space"

not mutually exclusive

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

- Albert Einstein

liberation

"You shouldn't think in the box or out of the box. You should think without a box."
- Lynn Wells, Systems Analyst

creativity

"What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable."
- Sir Jonathan Ive

Black Leonardo

"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
- George Washington Carver

gentlemen with brains

Wanted by 

Ogilvy & Mather International

Trumpeter 

Swans

In my experience, there are five kinds of Creative Director:

1. Sound on strategy, dull on execution.

2. Good managers who don't make waves ... and don't produce brilliant campaigns either.

3. Duds.

4. The genius who is a lousy leader.

5. TRUMPETER SWANS who combine personal genius with inspiring leadership.

We have an opening for one of these rare birds on one of our offices overseas.

Write in inviolable secrecy to me,

David Ogilvy, Touffou, 86300 Bonnes,

France.

embrace messiness

"Do as much as you can artistically always, because sometimes it stops."
- Brian Eno to Reggie Watts

on creativity

"If you haven't thought until your brain hurts, you haven't tried hard enough."
- Elon Musk