Hod Lipson Quotes

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

Imagination comes of not having things.

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.

I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.

And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

If you leave me in a room long enough, I'll redecorate the room.

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources.

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

We've made records for years on a shoestring.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.