Quotes About Creativity

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.

First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Books aren't just books they're a completely different world in the palm of your hands

Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.

While the backdrop remained unpainted anything could happen, and let it, Grace thought. Let someone else paint it in, perhaps another Brake Merrowby coming up the long drive in a bright red car, another man who could both entrance and infuriate her, someone else to love her for what she was rather than what she did.

We wove a web in childhood,A web of sunny air.

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

To make collections of wild flowers for the several months, press them, and mount them neatly on squares of cartridge paper, with the English name, habitat, and date of finding each, affords much happy occupation and, at the same time, much useful training: better still is it to accustom children to make careful brush drawings for the flowers that interest them, of the whole plant where possible.

A morning in which a child receives no new ideas is a morning wasted.

Às vezes eu acho que se ao menos eu estivesse bem o suficiente para escrever um pouco, aliviaria a pressão das ideias e eu poderia descansar. - O papel de parede amarelo

I think sometimes that if only I were well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me. But I find that I get pretty tired when I try.

You can't press a button to make Phil Mitchell jump over a turtle and land on a cloud (unless you've recently ingested a load of military-grade hallucinogens, in which case you can also make him climb inside his own face and start whistling colours).

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

A great meal can be deftly managed or thuggishly muscled, either way resulting in an original offering of scrumptiousness.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.