Quotes About Creativity

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We'd pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we'd put it together in ways that would work and be different.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

In books, or work, or healthful play.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.