Quotes About Creativity

Me, too! I'll sell my bras and buy two million! One per cup!

He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words were made up of little bits that could be shuffled, turned back to front, remixed. They could be tucked and folded into other words to produce unexpected things. It was like cookery, like alchemy. Language hid more than it revealed.

I can't write that dreadful hobbity stuff. I just simply... can't.

principios básicos del método Esalen de programación, consistentes en «desmenuzarlo todo y reconstruir de nuevo».

The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about "it" is in your mind and your to do with as you like. Conceptualization is art, and YOU ARE THE ARTIST

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Fashion is never wrong.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

It is better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

That's the trouble with people like you, Knight, you only know how to mock. How to break things. You don't know how to create anything. You never did.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

A yawning hole deep inside me was begging to be filled up with words and thoughts and ideas and facts and fictions." Callum McGregor

He loved to draw. Animals pouncing mostly. And trees. Always lone trees in black landscapes.