Quotes about "Creativity & Arts"

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ”

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. ”

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination. ”

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. ”

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ”

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ”

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ”

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in. ”

I'm not just influenced by the '60s - it's who I am. I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Che Guevara. I flirted with various forms of communism when it was way out of style. It was this really strange and creative time in music and culture, and it was fabulous. ”

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. ”