Quotes About Creativity

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.

Writing is freedom.

Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you're a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not.

How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process.

In the afternoon I drank Coke and wrote poetry.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

Once you start a file, Delphine, it's just a matter of time before the material comes pouring in. Notes, lists, photos, rumors. Every bit and piece and whisper in the world that doesn't have a life until someone comes along to collect it. It's all been waiting just for you.

Talent is everything; sanity is nothing.

Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.

Writing is an organized way of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write them.

mouth cat's-cradled with filaments of gleaming cheese.

Ses textes étaient des poèmes en prose, le genre de choses qu'écrivent les infirmières avant d'assister à leur première amputation.

This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

If they haven't compromised themselves already, in their hearts they want to, because being true to one's art, keeping the dream alive, is utterly exhausting.

What drove him to kill himself, she says, was realizing that he would never have what I now possess–a life beyond the pursuit of art–because being an artist, a writer, means isolating yourself in a room for hours, days on end, going into the darkest parts of yourself, and really, what sane person would want to do that?

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life - when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.

Sva su ljudska bi?a pripovjeda?i koji pri?aju sa svojega vlastitog, jedinstvenog stajališta. Kad to shvatimo, više ne?emo osje?ati potrebu da svoju pri?u name?emo drugima ili branimo ono u što vjerujemo. Umjesto toga, sve ?emo ljude promatrati kao umjetnike koji imaju pravo stvarati vlastitu umjetnost.

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.