Pharrell Williams Quotes

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

All children have creative power.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

As a kid I was creative.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

I think a really great creative person is almost by nature incredibly curious and digging deeply into cultures and technologies and getting all this input and using it to make things better - basically, creating better solutions.

Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.