Quotes About Creativity

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what's going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.