Creativity Source Quotes

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity belongs to the creator, not to you. No man can ever be creative. Yes, man can compose, construct, but can never be a creator. When man disappears, when man becomes utterly absent, a new kind of presence enters his being - the presence of God. Then there is creativity. When God is inside you His light that starts falling around you is creativity. The climate that arises around you because of the presence of God within you is creativity.

In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.

My concept is not bigger than Weather Report. I am Weather Report. It comes through me; I do not create nothing. It comes from being a child and listening to the radio every day of my life.

At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

I take inspiration from my own experiences and from other people's experiences.

I think you should experience life before you can recreate it.

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?'

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

I could never leave my home.... It inspires me a lot.