Quotes About Creativity

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

I always wanted to design for films.

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.