Tadao Ando Quotes

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

To create something you must be something.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

I just want to be able to be creative.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.