Katherine Dunham Quotes

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

I feel like I'm a creative, and I want to take advantage of that.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

A day doesn't go by where I don't create something.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

I like to create.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

I enjoy making and creating things.

I don't have the patience to be a non-creator.