Quotes About Creativity

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.

Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.