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Quotes About Creativity

That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.
~ Lights
Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.
~ Dan Fogelberg
I am inspired by the films of Pedro Almodóvar, as they are funny, sad, and extremely weird.
~ Volker Bertelmann
Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.
~ Lauren Groff
When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.
~ Henry Rollins
If you think of beautiful things, you're not sad.
~ Eva Zeisel
At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it.
~ Erik Hassle
Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it's going to be okay.
~ Clare B. Dunkle
Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You sound so miserable.""All novelists are.
~ Changdictator
I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
~ Bob Livingston
If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?
~ Ada Lovelace
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
~ Alexander Fleming
To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.
~ Joseph Beuys
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
~ Maxim Gorky
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
~ Milton Friedman
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
~ Walter Jon Williams
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
~ William Blake
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.
~ M. C. Escher
Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.
~ James Turrell