Laura Fraser Quotes

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Constraint inspires creativity

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

I love to be creative.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

It's always good to have a limit because it forces you to think about all the ways to get what you want.

My creativity thrives with limitations.

My dad used to give me old electrical equipment that didn't work anymore, and I'd put things together. I think that's why I like to mix things that don't belong.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.