Fantastic Negrito Quotes

Imagination comes of not having things.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Necessity, the mother of invention

When life hands you melons, eat them.

You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best.

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

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

Sometimes time constraints bring out something cool.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like "if it's all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can".

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

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

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.