Ross Lovegrove Quotes

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

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

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.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

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.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I love to be creative.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.