Ikue Mori Quotes

There's always some room for improvisation.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.