Thomas Heatherwick Quotes

I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

I like to create.

Surprise is key in all art.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.