Quote

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Umberto Eco

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Essayist
Historian
Literary Critic
Literary Scholar
Medievalist
Novelist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Semiotician
Translator
Lissändria
Umberto Ecco
Umberto Eccounstino
Humberto Eco
Dedalus
Umberto Eko
Oumperto Eko
Eco Umberto
U. Eco
Greater
Result
Rapidly
Sense
Materials
Originality
Nothing
Creativity
Failed
Work
Genius
Combination
Gets
Management
Wise
Saved
Combines
Results
Critical
Tossed
Creative
Material
Combinations

More quotes by Umberto Eco

Image
And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
Umberto Eco
Image
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
Umberto Eco
Image
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
Umberto Eco
Image
Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.
Umberto Eco
Image
the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
Umberto Eco
Image
I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
Umberto Eco
Image
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
Umberto Eco
Image
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
Umberto Eco
Image
Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.
Umberto Eco
Image
Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
Umberto Eco
Image
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco
Image
Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
Umberto Eco
Image
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
Image
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
Umberto Eco
Image
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
Umberto Eco
Image
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
Umberto Eco
Image
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.
Umberto Eco
Image
Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
Umberto Eco
Image
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
Umberto Eco
Image
When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.
Umberto Eco