Quotes About Creativity

A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.

Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.

You don't have a voice yet when you first come out. So even though I knew I had some deeper songs, my first album had to be about the tempo and the fun.

I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams' how it was a club record and it was up tempo, but it was melodic and it was, like, lyrical.

If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.

Everything is temporary. I don't know how long will I have my time here in the industry. I want to concentrate in making good music. That will be my biggest satisfaction.

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

A single idea / the sudden flash of a thought / may be worth a million dollars.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be... Don't merely dream... but create..

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

President Calvin Coolidge: "Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.