Creative Loss Quotes

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

I wouldn't exclude writing another song in German, but I don't want to translate songs anymore. We used to sit down and literally translate every song word for word - it was very technical, and the songs would lose so much along the way.

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the curriculum. There's no art; there's no music. In some cases they've taken away the libraries. They don't do theater. And these are the things that speak to the human soul.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.