Creativity Quotes

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist." "Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it." "Our art is a reflection of our reality" "If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something" "The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - of making it is what you feel; the energy when you play it - that's what I love" "Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself" "There's no formula or algorithm for innovation. You have to look for inspiration from a wide variety of places." "Poetry is an act of peace" "The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable." "I think the idea of art kills creativity." "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes." "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." "There is no great genius without some touch of madness" "I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own " "Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain " "I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men " "The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention " "Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born " "Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write." "To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."