Quotes On: Creativity

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.