The artist in me cries out for design.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, ‚Oh, that’s the hook right there,‘ I’ll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

If 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.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

There is spontaneity to my work.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

I didn’t watch ‚The A-Team‘ movie. I’m an artist. You can’t re-paint a Rembrandt. You can’t duplicate that; I don’t care who you get.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

I have the space and liberty to create.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

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

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

One 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.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

I create stars.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Beauty without expression is boring.

I 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.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.