Quotes About Creativity

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.