Creativity Quotes

"The art of landscape architecture design is not simply the arrangement of objects on the ground but the thoughtful and deliberate orchestration of all the elements and spaces that make up a landscape."

- Laurie Olin

"To create, one must first question everything."

- Eileen Gray

"The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong."

- Marty Neumeier

"Design is where science and art break even."

- Mieke Gerritzen

"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."

- Frank Stella

"Ignorance is bliss... with this innocence you can create and question a lot of things."

- Kunle Adeyemi

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"To create one must first question everything."

- Eileen Gray

"Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time."

- Marc Newson

"Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space."

- Philip Johnson

"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."

- Julia Morgan

"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That is art to me."

- Maya Lin

"You can learn from the past, but you can’t continue to be in the past; history is not a substitute for imagination."

- Frank Gehry

"Design is thinking made visual."

- Saul Bass

"I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares."

- Saul Bass

"Space is the breath of art."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society."

- Jean Piaget

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Words are animals, alive with a will of their own."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase."

- Melanie Klein

"Play is the work of childhood."

- Jean Piaget

"Play is the answer to how anything new comes about."

- Jean Piaget

"I could not think without writing."

- Jean Piaget

"You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play."

- Erik H. Erikson

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

"Brainstorm alternative ideas"

"33 Ways to stay Creative"

"Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him."