Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes

Design is an unknown.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

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 enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

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 like the creative aspect of developing a project.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.

We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design.

Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way?

I'm in show business, and I'm an entertainer, but I also see myself as an artist doing social and spiritual work.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

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

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.