Quotes About Creativity

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

He [Huxley] once explained that his aim as a novelist was 'to arrive, technically, at a perfect fusion of the novel and the essay', arguing that the novel should be like a holdall, bursting with opinion and arresting ideas.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

We had to redefine our musical culture. Not only our musical culture, however: at the end of the sixties all German artists had the same problems. Writers, directors, painters … all of them had to invent a new language.

If Bowie ever fails, it's almost always an interesting failure, which is the mark of a great artist.

Maybe I was drinking and drugging more than I should have done. Well, in fact, I know I was for Black Tie White Noise and Let's Dance.

I could only use the formula I knew. Which was, you call a song 'China Girl', it better sound Asian. You call a song 'Let's Dance', you damn well better make sure people dance to it.

We're all designers now. It's time to get good at it.

Judy's in the bedroom, inventing situations.Bob is on the street today, scouting up locations.They've enlisted all their family.They've enlisted all their friends.It helped save their relationship,And made it work again.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I don't like begging money from producers.