Jonah Lehrer Quotes

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

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.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

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've been painting and making things since I was little.

Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

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.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

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

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I like to create stuff. I like to express myself through jokes.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.