Saul Williams Quotes

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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 think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

I don't believe in writer's block.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall.

I describe my projects using colors because it's the best way to describe 'em. I would say that 'Moon Shoes' was way more colorful than a lot of my other music, just because I was pulling from so many different places. Imagine learning how to talk for the first time, and you're just saying everything.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.