Creativity Quotes

"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" "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." "Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better." "You can make anything by writing." "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new" "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough to be true." "You can either be judged because you created something or ignored because you left your greatness inside of you." "I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself." "A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."