Quotes About Creativity

for most (lyric) of what I do, the idea behind it was to try and bring a novelist's eye to it, and, within the framework of rock and roll, to try to have the lyric there so somebody who enjoys being engaged on that level could have that and have the rock and roll too.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

To poetry they prefer paradise. Matter of taste.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.

Communication is everything to you artists. You can't look at a landscape or a bowl of fruit without thinking how you will put it on a canvas so that somebody else will see it as your landscape or your bowl of fruit. That is the inescapable vulgarity of art.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

Het mooie van onze verbeelding is voor ons, die geen menschen van doen zijn, de troost van ons leven.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.

Form ever follows function.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Isn't it too bad Walt Disney didn't live to see this?" "He did see it," Vance replied simply. "That's why it's here.

Creativity is merely the arrangement of existing forms into new relationships.