“If you think about it, a good new idea has to seem bad to most people, or someone would have already explored it.”

“Picasso was perhaps the most restless, experimental, and productive artist who ever lived. Everything had to be done at top speed. He was incapable of lavishing care, time, or sustained effort on a work of art. By 1900, he was turning out a painting every morning and doing other things in the afternoon. And from then until his death at age 91, he remained a master of spectacular output— working on paper and canvas, in stone, ceramics, and metal in every possible variety of mixed media. He also designed posters, advertisements, theater sets, costumes, dresses, logos, and almost every kind of object from ashtray to headdress…Picasso lived for a total of 33,403 days with 26,075 published works. That means that Picasso averaged 1 new piece of artwork every day of his life from age 20 until his death at age 91. He created something new, everyday, for 71 years.”

“How much does the work you're currently doing engage your curiosity? If the answer is ‘not much,’ maybe you should change something. Curiosity is unlike most other appetites in this respect: indulging it tends to increase rather than to sate it. Questions lead to more questions. So perhaps curiosity is the compass here. Perhaps, if your goal is to discover novel ideas, your motto should not be ‘do what you love’ so much as ‘do what you're curious about.’’"

quote by @zachpogrob, image of Muhammad Ali