Susan Orlean Quotes

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

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

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.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

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

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

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.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Art and life are inseparable.

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

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

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

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