Roger von Oech Quotes

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

Definition is the death of discovery.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

I like trying to be creative.

I'm creative so I'm always gonna create.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want