Quotes About Creativity

I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us, that engage us. I just find the things that I respond to are useful.

I'm not one of those artists that can go away for six months and tour America and have 20 producers back in London or L.A. doing everything for me and I just come home and sing on it. It would be really useful, in terms of speed, to work like that. I just wouldn't find it creatively satisfying. I have to have my hand on the remote control.

It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm totally open to useful influence. I'm praying for it.

In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive.

People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn't considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process - especially in school in subjects like math and science.

I want to make art that is helpful, that's useful to people, that starts fruitful conversations. That makes you think about a question that you hadn't considered before.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

Circulation of the ball is important, but it's only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference.

I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.

It's okay to be inspired by other people and it can be a useful learning tool to play other people's music, but let out what's inside of you.

Apple's proven to be really good at taking what we're capable of with technology and making it useful and solve human problems.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

All art is quite useless.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance.

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.

There is nothing more useless than an album that you don't feel strongly about, out in the world.

If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.