Martin Heidegger Quotes

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

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

It's very joyful to be in a productive, creative mood, but I find a lot of joy in learning and being told stories.

I'm creative so I'm always gonna create.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

I have this disease-like need to try to create something new. When you're kind of being chased, and everything you do goes so well, you develop this sickness and a sense of need to constantly do something different.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

A lot of artists need structure.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.