Mark Parker Quotes

When you're bored, you get creative.

All children have creative power.

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

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

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.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

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

Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

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.

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

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.