Quotes About Creativity

And who knows? Those people might have much better things to do than to loiter about Levy Pants, such as composing jazz or creating new dances or doing whatever those things are that they do with such facility.

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them.

It was usually on about the fourth day that I put in that note of spontaneity for which I am known.

Men of genius do not destroy themselves along with so many others and invite such a dismal end.

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it

You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one

An artist, when sketching, looks at a landscape and then a sketch pad, repeating the process until an image appears, depicting, but not duplicating, what's there. Landscape and sketch pad guide the artist's hand, but no two artists will sketch the scene in just the same way.

Margaret Thatcher was part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice cream.

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Any fool can find answers. People who ask new questions, they are the geniuses