John Maeda Quotes

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

Craft is part of the creative process.

It's important to have an imagination.

I enjoy being creative.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

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

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Imagination is the air of mind.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.