Charlie Haden Quotes

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

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.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

When I want to get inspired, I'll put a Pixar movie on silent and listen to Nas.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

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

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

With knowledge, our creation can go in any direction - from the worst kind of drama, to the most beautiful dream. Then the best way to express our creativity is with love and awareness of what we really are.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.