Anoushka Shankar Quotes

'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new.

I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That's what sets your mind on fire.

Music is still my main thing, but I will explore anything that's interesting and challenging.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

I think a really great creative person is almost by nature incredibly curious and digging deeply into cultures and technologies and getting all this input and using it to make things better - basically, creating better solutions.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.