I am the freest author in the world.
J. K. RowlingThe art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John RuskinI kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
Clint EastwoodYou make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.
Dr. SeussThe first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard ShawAll art is quite useless.
Oscar WildeYou can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
Ray BradburyBegin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
Wayne DyerI think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
Lady GagaSometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
Alice MunroI wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
Richard P. FeynmanAmerica is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.
Kevin GatesI 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’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.
Bad BunnyI went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
Charlie ChaplinEvery artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMusic, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank ZappaWhen I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest HemingwayEvery man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich NietzscheFine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John RuskinWhen I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘
Taylor SwiftThere was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
AristotleIf you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.
Billie EilishThere are really two core principles at play here. There’s giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there’s keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We’re not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.
Mark ZuckerbergI’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.
Brian EnoSaying nothing… sometimes says the most.
Emily DickinsonI think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
Ray BradburyI don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.
Steven WrightA 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.
EminemThe function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar WildeWriting and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
J. K. RowlingYou may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
Steven WrightIf you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. NixonNo grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
Oscar WildeFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisThe day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Albert CamusI have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
Haruki MurakamiI wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.
Steven WrightPoetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund BurkeI spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
Brene BrownI just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
Dolly PartonArt is the proper task of life.
Friedrich NietzscheMy paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‚The Hornet’s Nest,‘ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.
Jimmy CarterI think sometimes – not always – I write songs that are accessible.
David ByrnePoetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David HareDo creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.
David ByrneI leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
Taylor SwiftWhen you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Douglas AdamsOne of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
Brian EnoI have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
Alice WalkerBuild a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPoetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
Ray BradburyThe best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis BaconYou cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Stephen KingMost 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 EnoIf you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
J. K. Rowling