Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

All children have creative power.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

We can always find creative ways to do things.