Creativity Quotes

"I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures " "Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence" "I want to write I want to write the songs of my people" "The poet is an artist for whom singing is not simply enough only accompanied by tears is his song complete" "Poetry is the watchful eye of the human race" "I'm too good for my own good, I won't leak the album, I'll let it spill" "You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail" "The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying." "Poetry is a centaur. The thinking, word-arranging, clarifying faculty must move and leap with the energizing, sentient, musical faculties." "How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?" "I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now I just have to fill in the rest." "I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while, I'll be listening to the radio and I say, I think I might have written that." "Art tells you what's beyond, without explicitly telling you" "Writing is nothing more than a guided dream" "Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea" "An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose" "The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable." "If you really do want to be an authentic, liberated individual, don't do any copying except of old masters. Otherwise, you're probably better off just staying at home." "I am, in large measure, the selfsame prose I write. " "Without madness, there is no humanity."