Lauv Quotes

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Imagination decides everything.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

I don't believe in writer's block.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

You can't rush inspiration.

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.