Quotes About Creativity

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

There's a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.