Le Corbusier Quotes

Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.

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.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

No matter what happens, it’s always now.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.