Creativity Quotes

""Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.""

- Robert Lee Frost

""Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is a very zen-like game.""

- Jim Jarmusch

"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

- Lawrence Durrell

"Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness."

- Pedro Almodovar

"I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up."

- Taylor Swift

"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

- Henry Miller

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."

- Clive Barker

"I release feelings inside me through my songs. I take some of the sadness, some of the heartache, and turn it out."

- Ray Charles

"Mirrors should think longer before they reflect."

- Jean Cocteau

"I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things."

- Claude Chabrol

"If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors."

- Bertolt Brecht

"You don’t take a photograph, you make it."

- Ansel Adams

"Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved."

- Bill Brandt

"With black and white photography, what you have to say counts more than the way you say it."

- Gian Marco Marano

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

- Igor Stravinsky

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."

- Pablo Casals

"Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music."

- Carlos Santana

"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

- Neil Diamond

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."

- Igor Stravinsky

"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."

- Claude Debussy

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Where words fail, music speaks."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Music is the strongest form of magic."

- Marilyn Manson

"Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there."

- Miles Davis

"In the right context, you can make ugly sounds (…) feel right at home."

- Flume

"As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist."

- Armin van Buuren

"If you want to get unusual results, work fast and work cheap, because there’s more of a chance that you’ll get somewhere that nobody else did."

- Brian Eno

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

- Francis Bacon

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"Life is like a camera: focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot."