Zac Posen Quotes

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

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

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

I love to be creative.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

I believe in creative work.

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.

Life and art are inseparable.

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

I enjoy being creative.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.