William McDonough Quotes

I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That's what sets your mind on fire.

The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

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!

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

I think Twyla [Tharp] has a lot to say. The great thing about Twyla is that she continues to explore.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.