Charles James Quotes

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something and make something different from just using things that were lying around. So whoever designed the wheel were onto a good thing.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.