Quotes About Creativity

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

I really struggled with doing nine-to-five and just wanted to do something where it felt like I was in charge and I was doing something creative. I imagine if the first gig had gone badly I'd never have done it again. I imagine there's hundreds of people who could have been really great comedians and just had a bad first gig.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

I've struggled with self-esteem and depression, like most singer-songwriters. I listen to my EPs on Bandcamp, and I can just hear the pain and the self-esteem struggle in my voice.

I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my way of speaking, of dealing with my own issues and connecting with the world.

I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to be.

So much of school, you have to write, but I just struggled. I couldn't help it.

All of the most interesting people had a horrible time as kids. All the best rappers struggled.

Everybody struggles to come up with stuff that no one has ever seen before. It's a fine line between trying to get creative and doing something that's new, fresh and different - yet, for me, something that's based in reality that would actually work in these situations. These are the keys to great fight scenes and action sequences.

Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.