I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

I 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.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Silence is safer than speech.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I 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.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

I 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.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

All art is quite useless.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.