Leo Sayer Quotes

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.

You can be extremely bright and still have dyslexia. You just have to understand how you learn and how you process information. When you know that, you can overcome a lot of the obstacles that come with dyslexia.

When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey kids.

There is a talent in dyslexia - it can help you see things creatively. So I wouldn't change a thing.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

If you have kids who are struggling with dyslexia, the greatest gift you can give them is the sense that nothing is unattainable. With dyslexia comes a very great gift, which is the way that your mind can think creatively.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.