"Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors."

-- Paul Schrader

#Creativity Quotes #Artist Quotes #Doors Quotes

“It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.”
“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”
“Rappin bout blunts and broads, Tits and bras, mÃ©nage Ã trois, sex in expensive cars...”
“Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.”
“You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.”
“I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.”
“The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.”
“It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.”

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres

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