Quotes About Creativity

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.

Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

You are bound to pick up influences.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.