You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.
The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.
Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.
Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.
Design is a response to social change.
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.