Bernard Tschumi Quotes

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'

All of our movies are lower budget, and that makes them more interesting, too: we have to come up with solutions other than throwing money at problems.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

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

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

For me, some of the most intense creativity comes when something has to change for technical or design reasons, and you're trying to find a way to make it fit the fiction.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

At 'Vogue,' I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly detailed, and you have to be very resourceful to fit a square peg into a round hole. I learned to push the envelope when it comes to asking questions or making requests.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

I started out taking any project that I could because you want the work. You want the opportunity to create, and I'm glad I did because it forces you to really get an understanding of your vision and your voice as a designer when you have to be scrappy like that.

If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

I give myself limits - not only financial limits, but I also limit my method of expression, and from within those limits, I try to come up with something new and interesting.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

If you look at the world today, there are as many solutions as there are problems. I think that is a big part of creativity. That's why I started Urban Zen. Because I wanted to dress and address people.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

Constraint inspires creativity

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.