creativity quotes

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

I 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.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Don’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.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

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.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

I have the space and liberty to create.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

Begin 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.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

I 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.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families – and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

In 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.

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

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

In art the best is good enough.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

If 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.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.