Quotes About Creativity

Life is a piano what you get out of it depends on how you play it

Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late.

The choir are screaming now, fugue-permutations veering and careening to the outer limits of the field where any ratio of intervals or pitches might hold sway: tonics swapping with subdominants within the space of single notes that seem to play out in three octaves all at once, false entries, inversions, retrogrades and diminutions running riot through all keys -- until, suddenly, these fall away, like clouds

Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

We find our vocational sweet spot when our creativity is most unleashed, our passions most engaged, and our work makes the greatest contribution to advancing the mission of the organization or the business where we serve.

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

I had to learn a new way of playing. I had to practice a lot, and just find ways around the limitations. So it was a bad idea to break my hand. You said you were doing a lot of cocaine. Did that affect your songwriting? No. I think it affected my breaking my hand.

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Imagination is a cruel master to the jealous man.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.

I wanted to read a book with a good ending so I wrote one.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

More attractive metaphors create more popular buildings.

What is admired is success, achievement, the quality of performance," writes the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "rather than the quality of experience." But what if we don't want to become virtuoso musicians or renowned artists? What if we only want to dabble in these things, to see if they might subtly change our outlook on the world or even, as we try to learn them, change us? What if we just want to enjoy them?

As you plunge into learning some art or skill, the world around you appears new and bursting with infinite horizons. Each day brims with new discoveries as you take your tentative first steps, slowly pushing the bounds of exploration. You make mistakes, but even these are empowering, because they are mistakes you have never made before.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.