Patti Smith Quotes

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

My compulsion is to create things.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

I've always had an appetite for creating in some capacity.

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

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

I love being creative in all forms.

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

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

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

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.