Quotes About Creativity

Annie Barrows

Annie Barrows

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

Quitting freed Chappelle, as it did Butterfield, to explore other opportunities that would bring him greater happiness and creative satisfaction.

In their opinion, writing was dangerous, like touching your privates or grimacing like a dingo.

Aver vissuto una cosa, qualsiasi cosa, conferisce il diritto inalienabile di scriverla. Non ci sono verità inferiori.

Depuis vingt ans, je note « 58 » dans mes projets de livre. C'est le texte toujours manquant. Toujours remis. Le trou inqualifiable.

Aucun autre projet d'écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspective intenable, puisque chaque instant sans projet d'écriture ressemble au dernier.

J'ai voulu faire de cette passion une Å"uvre d'art dans ma vie, ou plutôt cette liaison est devenue passion parce que je l'ai voulue Å"uvre d'art (Michel Foucault : le souverain bien, c'est de faire de sa vie une Å"uvre d'art).

Ver con la imaginación o volver a ver por medio de la memoria es el patrimonio de la escritura.

At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, and all of them die as a result of becoming, or not becoming reality.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.