Shaun Tan Quotes

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

I make so many ideas, it's impossible to finish every single one.

I've got loads of ideas swimming round, and I've even organised them in a nice folder on me computer.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.

I've always been an idea person, so I've always been great at having ideas, just not having the resources to make them happen.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.