Quotes About Creativity

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own—my words are gone.

If I was designing a home for Libby Strout, it would be exceptional. It would be one of a kind. It would be bright red with a tin roof, at least two stories, possibly more, a state-of-the-art art weather station, and lots of turrets. Also a tower, but not one to lock her in. It would be a place where she could sit and look out over and beyond the town, as far as the horizon, maybe even past it.

she was good at that, taking things one step further and making them bigger and more exciting than they would have been.

Mom used to say that a picture wasn't worth anything if it didn't produce a reaction, that it takes talent to capture feeling with an image.

Jessamyn West said, 'Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter or girlfriend or sister. Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do.

Podemos empezar partiendo de algo muy pequeño. Abre un documento nuevo o coge una hoja de papel en blanco. Será nuestro lienzo. Recuerda lo que Miguel Ángel dijo sobre que la escultura estaba en el interior de la piedra, que estaba allí desde un buen principio, y que su trabajo consistía en extraerla. Tus palabras también están ahí.

Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London...Write a book...Feel good about myself...Live...Play guitar like Jimmy Page. Come up with a song that will change the world. Find the Great Manifesto. Count for something. Be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough...Matter...Stop being afraid. Stop thinking too much. Fill the holes left behind. Drive...Write. Breathe...Before I die I want to know a perfect day.