Ann Reinking Quotes

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

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.

When you're sitting in the basement trying to get on, you have no choice - you've gotta figure out how to make a song: 'I've gotta bang on these buttons until it sounds good.'

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

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

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.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

Imagination comes of not having things.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

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.

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.