Quotes About Creativity

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.