Eddie Van Halen Quotes

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

I'm interested in creating new work.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.