Rodney Mullen Quotes

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.

Oftentimes, when I'm trying to get inspired, I'll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.

Any one thing can get in the way of you and your brain being comfortable and being inspired. It's the difference between a really big song and a song that never existed.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

I think it's better to have ideas.

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

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

The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!

Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

I think brilliant stuff comes out of working with limitations. One liners are very limiting, but that's what drew me to them in the first place.

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?