Miuccia Prada Quotes

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

I don't think generally speaking, there are a lot of innovators and inventors. Many of the designers take what exists already and update it or make it relevant for today. But true inventors have never been seen before. Bill Gates is a real inventor. I don't think fashion designers invent anything new. They innovate new ways to make fashion.

Architecture is invention.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I like creating new things.

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

I like to create new things.

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.