Quotes About Creativity

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

Every book is a time machine, a flying carpet, a passport to the most powerful nation in the world....... your imagi-nation!

surfing, writing, composing, and programming deep into the night, like it's the early 1980s with the hue of poison-green CRT illuminating the room, Nike running shoes on the floor, hair metal poster on the door, and everything is infinite, made of fibre optics and floppy disks . . .

If you no longer needed to work to live, what would you do for free?

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

People dance at any age.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Writers don't live their lives. They are simply making a report on it.

Just think of Emily Bronte, for example: psychotically bookish - but was there ever a woman screaming out so loudly for a good f***ing? I even suspect that's why Wuthering Heights carries on decades too long rather than sensibly drawing the curtains a little after Cathy's death. It was Bronte saying, 'Look - I'm simply going to keep on writing this stuff until someone comes and shags me raw.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

First you imitate, then you innovate.

That was my gift -- having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go letting them play what they knew, and above it.

Don t play what's there, play what's not there.

See, music is about style.