Quotes About Creativity

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

It's nice to fool around with clothes, and that comes from some recklessness. I suddenly feel like wearing a lungi and a jacket, and now I have the access to do what I want. When I was doing theatre, my Muslim friends would invite me to an Iftar party, and I'd go wearing a dhoti while others would be in a kurta-pyjama.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.