Ma Yansong Quotes

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

Imagination is the air of mind.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

Don't think it, ink it.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

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

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I have fantastic ideas.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

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

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.