Quotes about Creativity

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.

I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Thomas Merton who said: "The will of God is not a 'fate' to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life that produces something absolutely new, something hitherto unforeseen by the laws and established patterns. Our cooperation consists not solely in conforming to external laws, but in opening our wills to this mutually creative act."5

Humans are creators of meaning, and finding deep meaning in our experiences is not just another name for spirituality but is also the very shape of human happiness.

Good art seems absolutely essential to healthy religion.