Quotes about Creativity

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things that have jazz elements but also a pop feel.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Any film that you see that has any progressive spirits that is made by any people of color or a woman is a triumph in and of itself. Whether you agree with it or not. Something that comes with some point of view and some personal perspective from a woman or a person of color is a unicorn.

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?

I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.