Quotes About Creativity

If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.

I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back the opera. She saw that I really liked music, and so she put me in piano lessons when I was about three years old.

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

I'd like to be a piano player.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.

Like Picasso, I go through blue periods, green periods, or grey periods.

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'