Quotes About Creativity

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.