Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

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.

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.

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

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

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.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.