Quotes About Creativity

You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why not have a class of third graders compete to design your logo?

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

Design really can be anything.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.