Quotes about "Creativity & Arts"

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer. ”

Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam's bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar. ”

Rock n' roll was my art school. For many people from working-class backgrounds, rock wasn't a chosen thing, it was the only thing: the only avenue of creativity available for them. ”

Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York. ”

There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there. ”

I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.' ”

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion. ”

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz. ”

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration. ”

It's important to have an imagination. ”