Quotes About Creativity

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

Live the rest of your life in possibility

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

If you are wearing clothes that you enjoy wearing, everything you do in life becomes fun.

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival.

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.