Prince Quotes

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

I like to create.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

A playwright can drop a little acid in the water and it washes away a lot of rust.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.