Quotes About Creativity

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.