Mark Bradford Quotes

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

Everyone is super creative in the family.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

All children have creative power.

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

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

I admire people who are creative.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I love to be creative.

Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.