Quotes About Creativity

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

Each year new consuls and proconsuls are made; but not every year is a king or a poet born.

All art is but imitation of nature.

The lively power of his mind prevailed, and forth he marched far beyond the flaming walls of the heavens, as he traversed the immeasurable universe in thought and imagination.

On a dark theme I trace verses full of light, touching all the muses' charm.

Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters

I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.

A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...

To have output you must have input. It helps to go on a period of creative nourishment, or dolce far niente, clearing the brain. Go to bed with the cat, some flouffy pillows, tea and a book which could not in any sense be called improving. Read for fun for a change: superior Chicklit is good, or children's classics. You are not allowed to try and analyse what the author is doing. After a good sleep, go and do something new, or that you haven't done for a while....

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

There's no place to put the furniture. I was born in a little village in Germany. I can dream and imagine this new world, but I can't live in it.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Not "brook" [in German: Bach], but "sea" should he [Johann Sebastian Bach] be called because of his infinite, inexhaustible richness in tone combinations and harmonies. (Nicht Bach! Meer sollte er heissen: wegen seines unendlichen, unerschoepflichen Reichtums an Tonkombinationen und Harmonien.)

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again; it disappears; it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again; I seize it; I embrace it with delight.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into it's secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.