Feist Quotes

I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.

When you're bored, you get creative.

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

I feel like I'm the most creative when I'm bored.

I think a really great creative person is almost by nature incredibly curious and digging deeply into cultures and technologies and getting all this input and using it to make things better - basically, creating better solutions.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

All children have creative power.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

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

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.