Quotes About Creativity

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

During the times we think we're being "unproductive," the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

An idle mind is not a devil's workshop but a wanderlust

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities

When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of.

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.