Edd China Quotes

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

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do.

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

When you're pitching movies, sometimes you know what the idea is, but you fully don't know the dimensions of it.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of his 800-page novel.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I'm just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.