Quotes About Creativity

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

When I made my Obey logo, it was 100 percent an homage to Barbara Kruger's work and 0 percent had anything to do with Supreme.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

When you get my 'Supreme Clientele,' it is straight bars.

I made 'Supreme Clientele' what it is. Those are my stories, based around whatever they're based upon. It's me.

I've never considered Supreme to be a fashion company, or myself a designer.

For the Supreme Court, the right for everyone to say 'I do' is where the story ends, but for artists, it's where the story just starts to get interesting.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of got kind of good at it. You know, I had a brief moment where I wasn't sure if I could do it. I didn't know you needed light to expose film.

I'm not sure people understand how important fashion is to me.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.

There will be slow songs, sad songs, happy songs, songs about boys, and songs about being who you are. I'm making sure I'm happy with all of the songs, because if I am not happy with them, I can't expect anyone else to be, you know?

I'd be a chef if I wasn't a musician, that's for sure.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.