Willow Smith Quotes

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.

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

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

I like to make people think.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.

I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being an innovator. I think you're going to see for the next phase of the revolution all sorts of wonderful ways of connecting art and literature and journalism into new forms of digital expression.

Doing something new and challenging. It can be anything from starting a business to playing a sport. Seeing a great concert, looking at extraordinary art, or being in nature. More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks, exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life.

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.