Quotes About Creativity

Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

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

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

Talvolta si può cadere nell'equivoco di credere che certa letteratura induca a certi comportamenti, quando è vero esattamente il contrario. È sempre la domanda a precedere la risposta. [...] La letteratura (anche quella disegnata) ha la possibilità di mantenere circoscritte nell'ambito della fantasia quelle ossessioni che altrimenti troverebbero un inevitabile sfogo nella realtà. [...] La censura è sempre dannosa.

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

He taught him to wag his trunk like a tail. Then Arnold painted the most beautiful cat's face on the elephant.

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." – Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer)

It was possible that he was in love with the way she wrote the number two—her parallel lines expressing a kind of free movement inside the invisible box that contained the ideograph's strokes.

Learning was like playing, not labor.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.