Bruce Nauman Quotes

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Imagination decides everything.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

It's important to have an imagination.

Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

If you look at the world today, there are as many solutions as there are problems. I think that is a big part of creativity. That's why I started Urban Zen. Because I wanted to dress and address people.

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.