Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.

People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.

Everyday as we die, we must be reborn. If there were no death, life would be meaningless.

When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.