Douglas Coupland Quotes

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

It's nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Artists need to express.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

Imagination decides everything.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

The artist in me cries out for design.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.