Quotes About Creativity

To me, new friends, new genres, new person-to person chemistry is the DNA of EDM.

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that's going to be there forever.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.

The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

Sei capace di dipingere dèi ed eroi, cittadino pittore? è un'assemblea di eroi quella che ti chiediamo. Dipingili come dèi o come mostri, o anche come uomini, se te ne viene l'estro. Dipingi Il Grande Comitato dell'anno II . Il Comitato di salute pubblica. Fanne quello che vuoi: santi, tiranni, briganti, principi. Ma mettili tutti insieme, in una bella riunione di famiglai, come fratelli.

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein's theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

let us love winter, for it is the spring of genuis.

The world has many kings but only one Michelangelo.

L'arte, che col suo pregio dona ogni dolcezza ai mortali, spesso fece sì che anche l'incredibile diventasse credibile.

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them.