Melvyn Bragg Quotes

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

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

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

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.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

I'm a creator at heart.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.