Henry Petroski Quotes

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

I'm interested in creating new work.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

True change takes place in the imagination.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

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

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.