Quotes About Creativity

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.

Insanity is the base for Creativity.

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

Inspiration is everywhere.

Because someone imagined it so we have, if you can imagine it you can release it.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.