Thomas Heatherwick Quotes

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

All children have creative power.

I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

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

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

I like to create.

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

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.