Shinichiro Watanabe Quotes

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

I love to be creative.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Ideas are the root of creation.

I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.