Quotes about Creativity
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.
— Lee Ann Womack
My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.
— Kamasi Washington
She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.
— Lisa Wingate
I loved each of them dearly. One was a teacher, one was a preacher, and the last was an artist who found his calling later in life. One taught me to think, one taught me to know, and one taught me to see. Each inspired me.
— Lisa Wingate
Without desire how is it possible to make a story?
— JM Coetzee
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
— John Keats
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
— Vincent Van Gogh
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.
— Vincent Van Gogh
In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
— Vincent Van Gogh
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
— Vincent Van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.
— Vincent Van Gogh