Amy Winehouse Quotes

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

I've spent my life playing music.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.

I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unconscious mind may be a little more distorted and violent than I am aware of.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.