Quotes About Creativity

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

I shall have twenty cats and talk to them all," she said, picking up the volume of poetry. "My cats and I shall have fish every day for dinner." Her imagination taking flight, she finished, dropping the book into the box, "And I shall memorize every line in this book and paint it in calligraphy on my living room walls.

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You ' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life ' were you?'

Frustration is the seedbed of creativity,invention and ultimately progress.

The trouble is they don't write the lines I want to use any more.

For something to be beautiful it doesn't have to be pretty.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Painting is the grandchild of Nature.

At 3 am anything was possible: you could do a handstand on a genever bottle

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to too many half-lettered persons.

Rien ne s'y trouve formé, parce que toutes les formes y sont possibles.

so that there resulted a chaos as disordered as the poets ever feigned

For indeed when painters themselves wish to represent sirens and satyrs [20] by means of especially bizarre forms, they surely cannot assign to them utterly new natures. Rather, they simply fuse together the members of various animals. Or if perhaps they concoct something so utterly novel that nothing like it has ever been seen before (and thus is something utterly fictitious and false), yet certainly at the very least the colors from which they fashion it ought to be true. And