Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

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

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

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

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

I just want to be able to be creative.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I'd never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven't since - the world will be a greyer place without him.

I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.

I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

Giving calls for genius.