Alice Walker Quotes

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

There's a certain amount of pleasure in being able to create something and watch it grow.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

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

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.

Don't just consume things, create things

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

My compulsion is to create things.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

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.

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

Make good art.