Quotes About Creativity

Hurston did make significant parts of herself up, like a masquerader putting on a disguise for the ball, like a character in her fictions.

That which she chooses to reveal is the life of her imagination, as it sought to mold and interpret her environment.

Put simply, Hurston wrote well when she was comfortable, wrote poorly when she was not.

ignorant editors and a smothering patron—produced the sort of dependence that affects

As Hurston herself noted, "Roll your eyes in ecstasy and ape his every move, but until we have placed something upon his street corner that is our own, we are right back where we were when they filed our iron collar off.

After all the imagination is a beautiful thing.

Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song.

While I was in the research field in 1929, the idea of Jonah's Gourd Vine came to me. I had written a few short stories, but the idea of attempting a book seemed so big that I gazed at it in the quiet of the night, but hid it away from even myself in daylight.

The will to make life beautiful was strong.

How could the recipient of two Guggenheims and the author of four novels, a dozen short stories, two musicals, two books on black mythology, dozens of essays, and a prizewinning autobiography virtually 'disappear' from her readership for three full decades?

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

I stay away from the studio too long, I feel like I'm abandoning myself.

I could not write on 'Downton Abbey'.

Abbey Road' was a fantastic record.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad.

The idea of doing film and music together is an absolute dream.

What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like!

I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.

Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.