Quotes About Creativity

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

I'd rather dance than eat.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.