Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Ray BradburyImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinMy goal is to entertain myself and others.
Ray BradburyThe arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Kurt VonnegutThe earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn’t refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.
Brian EnoEverything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
Wayne DyerYou see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘
George Bernard ShawI’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
Stephen KingIf I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.
Paul AusterSome of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
Alice MunroI just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘
DrakeThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas CarlyleYou fail only if you stop writing.
Ray BradburyWhen nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.
Charles BukowskiIn my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
Ray BradburyIf my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.
Woody AllenDesign is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve JobsSitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
Taylor SwiftAll our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest HemingwayThere are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.
Dwayne JohnsonPoetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David HareI hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.
Mr. TA lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious.
EminemDon’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.
Paul AusterMusic has the power to inspire the world.
Bad BunnyI like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.
Abby Lee MillerMost of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
Brian EnoI have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.
Terry PratchettI mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.
Christopher HitchensArt’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
Frank OceanI write screenplays in the middle of the night.
Ray BradburyLike music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy CarterFrom a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.
Richard BransonI am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert EinsteinOpinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
VoltaireEvery movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.
Clint EastwoodI used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
Ray BradburyIf an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.
Ray BradburyI’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.
Paul AusterLove is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.
Ray BradburyIf pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert HubbardNo art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John RuskinI can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van GoghMusic is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
Bruno MarsThe more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Vincent Van GoghIn my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
Charles BukowskiImagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert EinsteinArt is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar WildeThe great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
Ray BradburyNext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin LutherI don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.
The WeekndWhen I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?
Clint EastwoodThe spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
Oscar WildeI really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.
Billie EilishA good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van GoghThe idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert HubbardThe more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.
Jocko WillinkThe essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale CarnegieI decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn’t want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn’t supposed to be able to draw – isn’t that wonderful – so I made up a false name.
Richard P. Feynman