Engineering is a creative practice.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are…

— Norman Foster

“If we fail to cultivate grit, it is also because we often grant little importance to the practice of making and the process that…

— Sarah Lewis

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

— Jeff Hawkins

Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe…

— Bryce Dessner

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of…

— William McDonough

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

— John Maeda

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

— Criss Jami

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.

— Grigor Dimitrov

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between…

— Nawal El Saadawi

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative…

— Paul Klee

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

— Stephen L. Carter

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

— Joanne Greenberg

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

— Denise Linn

An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached…

— Kim Ki-duk