Quotes about Creativity

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.