Aesthetic creativity includes designing for joy, as in the case of the bandages, or for simplicity, as in the case of train timetables and elegant clocks.

The producer is the difference between a good idea and an actual success, but the true art of the producer is to commercialize the idea while also not stunting its growth by compromising too early.

I see this all the time teaching business to artists and designers, and it applies to everyone. The artists or designers struggle with a business model to describe what they do, and then realize that what they ultimately need is not to be paid to make the things they already know how to make, but to somehow find space inside their financials to pla

Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback and the iterative process—reworking, reworking, and reworking again, until a flawed story finds its throughline or a hollow character finds its soul.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

In all of this talk of professional identity, the Keyser Söze of this book is Adam Smith, the founder of economics himself. He was labeled an economist after the fact but he couldn’t have been one before he invented the field. In that sense he was an artist and the field he invented was his point-B creation.

You may be able to develop a model collaboratively that far outstrips what you can build on your own.

You may be a captain of industry, or take on a great cause. You may collaborate with other people or work alone. It is true that everyone is an artist and a businessperson but it is also true that everyone is a citizen, in the broadest sense.

Art and science, leisure and work, invention and execution are all parts of the same system.