Yukihiro Matsumoto Quotes

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection, and be completely desperate at night regarding the same thing. And I do a lot of other things too: Writing for me is almost as important as drawing my collection.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Don't just consume things, create things