Creativity Code Quotes

“Much modern art is no longer about the appreciation of an aesthetic and skill by the likes of Rembrandt or Leonardo, but rather the interesting message and perspective that the artist is revealing about our relationship to our world.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think

“Art does many things, but for me where art is at its best is in providing a window into the way another mind works.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think

“It doesn’t matter how the paint is put on,’ he wrote in describing his method, ‘as long as something is said. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think

“It is Boden’s third form of creativity that is the more mysterious and elusive, and that is transformational creativity. This describes those rare moments that are complete game changers. Every art form has these gear shifts. Think of Picasso and Cubism, Schoenberg and atonality, Joyce and modernism. They are like phase changes, when water suddenly goes from a liquid to a gas.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think

“The first algorithm to win its creators a Nobel Prize—originally formulated by two mathematicians, David Gale and Lloyd Shapley, in 1962”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI

“Why do we as humans create art? Why is Richter’s work regarded as art while a book of Dulux colour samples is not?”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think

“Humankind now produces in two days the same amount of data it took us from the dawn of civilisation until 2003 to generate.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think

“this equation into the future, it takes a dramatic lurch downward, absurdly predicting complete annihilation of the US population in the middle of October 2028. (Or perhaps the mathematics knows something we don’t!) Graph source: The Mathworks, Inc.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI