mental creativity Quotes

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.

My mother was incredibly creative and absolutely mental.

I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.

A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

I was always good at hearing complete arrangements in my head.

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

There is so much to be celebrated about mental illness. I do believe that there is something to be said about the truly artistic, the truly brilliant, those of us who have been 'touched by fire' that should be celebrated, not stigmatized.

Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.