Ai Weiwei Quotes

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

I'm pretty restless in bed, so I can lie there for a couple of hours and be like, 'Hey, that happened today. What if that happened at a zoo?' I'll jot the idea down. Then I'm like, 'All right, so now that it's a zoo, that penguin's loose,' or, whatever. I usually start with broad ideas.

I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.