If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily DickinsonArt is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.
Lady GagaIt’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.
EminemEvery band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
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 PratchettLove. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray BradburyHaving unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
David ByrneI kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.
J. ColeIdeas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim RohnWhen I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.
The WeekndIt’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.
Tom BradyMusic is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.
AuroraTo raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert EinsteinIn all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.
Terry PratchettSoftware constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.
David ByrneNever regret what you don’t write.
Abraham LincolnYou fail only if you stop writing.
Ray BradburyI feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.
Steven WrightI don’t intend to stop making music.
Frank OceanI do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador DaliI have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
Haruki MurakamiA guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.
The WeekndThe totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
Ronald ReaganI love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
Taylor SwiftThe mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
Leonardo da VinciI don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark TwainA musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?
Dave GrohlI felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
David BowieImagination decides everything.
Blaise PascalI would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.
Jocko WillinkI wanted to write.
Christopher HitchensImperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn MonroeMen of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.
Leonardo da VinciI’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
Brian EnoAll art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Frank OceanEven in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. LewisMost people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.
Haruki MurakamiThe hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
HeraclitusYou should treat a muse like a fairy.
Paulo CoelhoWe’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.
Billy GrahamI wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
Lady GagaI don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.
The WeekndWhen I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van GoghIf you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
Haruki MurakamiI don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
David BowieStories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
Paul AusterI have fun with ideas; I play with them.
Ray BradburyPeople like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
Brian EnoA person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark TwainThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert EinsteinThis world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David ThoreauA writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
Ernest HemingwayThe idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert HubbardEach morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador DaliWriting is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.
Wayne DyerBefore I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.
Jim CarreyYour manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel JohnsonI used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.
Kendrick Lamar