Quotes About Creativity

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

If you're going to write something, that's going to be read by people, a lot of people, you hope it will not only entertain them but maybe do them some good in some way.

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

I hope there is an edge to what I do.

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.