Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

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!

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

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.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

I have to be creative to be happy.

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

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

I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one's life and those around us in a positive way.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

I feel that my work comes alive all the time.

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

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

The secret of life is in art.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

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

I'm constantly creating and writing.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.

Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.