Harper Reed Quotes

Architecture is invention.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I love being creative in all forms.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

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