Yayoi Kusama Quotes

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Ideas are the root of creation.

You can't rush inspiration.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

You never know where you're going to get inspiration.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.