Lester Bangs Quotes

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

I just want to be able to be creative.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

To create something you must be something.

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

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

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

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.