Quotes About Creativity

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school's curriculum.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.

My worst decision was not learning Spanish yet. I think it would really help my business if I could do some of my singles in Spanish or a Spanish/English mix.

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.