Clear Quote by Karl Lagerfeld

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

— Karl Lagerfeld

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

— Henri Matisse

The designer must think first and work later.

— Will Burtin

Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.

— Reggie Watts

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

— Maxwell Maltz

A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed,…

— Lester Beall

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.

— Anonymous

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

— Edward Tufte

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than…

— Maxwell Maltz

Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to…

— Dieter Rams

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

— Julia Cameron