Quotes About Creativity

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

The mind map will change your life.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

I'm amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.