David Karp Quotes

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

I think it's better to have ideas.

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.