Charles Gwathmey Quotes

My creativity thrives with limitations.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

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

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Art chooses its constraints.

Constraint inspires creativity

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Limits are very important.

Imagination decides everything.

I love to be creative.

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

I believe in creative work.

It's always good to have a limit because it forces you to think about all the ways to get what you want.

Any business situation is restrictive.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

I enjoy being creative.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

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!