Quotes About Creativity

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving and you can really make things work in a very gratifying way.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and amazing.

The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.

The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and have everyone do it the same way. I don't like that.

I'm an anti-standard operating procedure guy.

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.

A police officer asked me why I agreed to play a Pakistani in my films. I told him that someone has to do different, na. If everyone will become Indian army officer then how the story will proceed?

The source is always me, but when the inspiration is an amazing idea or entity, it gives the process of music making a very beautiful route to proceed on.

I've always loved the editing process.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.