Quotes About Creativity

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

You create your own life and your work. Give us your best.

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer's life seemed the most inclusive.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

If you choose to lead your life just like everyone else, then what exactly is it that you have to offer?

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.