Quotes About Creativity

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I'm interested in.

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.