1,653 Quotes About Create

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Anger can heat one up to create positive or negative change. The line is very fine between them. So make sure to keep your boiling point in check.

I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived on longer than I do. Perseverance and teaching yourself, every day through stress and hard work proves shit really does progress without you realizing. One minute you're an amateur, knowing nothing, not even the basics. The next you can put pen to paper, write a song, and create art in such little time! It's crazy beautiful.

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.

When you see yourself as creative, your world expands.

Creation, of any sort, needs a little bit of madness.