Everyday Creativity Quotes

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.

Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

I would describe my songs as just a collection of my thoughts, with melodies that probably occurred to me in the grocery store or cycling home, sung as best I can over a bunch of chords.