Casey Neistat Quotes

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

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

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Imagination decides everything.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

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

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

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

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

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.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

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

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

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