Robert Greenberg famous quotes

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.
-- Robert Greenberg

#Creative #Design #Stories

The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.
-- Robert Greenberg

#Challenges #Consciousness

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.
-- Robert Greenberg

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When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.
-- Robert Greenberg

#Hands #Wind #Piano

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.