Quotes about Creativity

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds.

I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my head. But it has something to do with Lou Reed as a mythic figure: a person who fitted no category, who defied limits and trends and definitions.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

I get hit up all the time from every verified rapper with 1,000,000 followers like, 'Yo bro! You got the sauce right now. Send me beats!' Naw, that takes everything away from what I do.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

The stuff that comes easy takes the most rewriting. And the stuff that comes hard reads the easiest (Writing for the Soul, p. 194).