Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done through equations and textbooks whereas artists go to art school and start making stuff; they fling paint at the walls, they dance and bash things together with giant bits of metal. Our society has come to think of science as being a very abstractified thing, and art as being a materialized thing.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Craft is part of the creative process.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

These fingers of mine got brains in 'em.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"