Quotes About Creativity

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.