Quotes About Creativity

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

Live to paint, don't paint to live.

I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.

How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.