M.I.A. Quotes

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

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

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.

Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.