Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

I'm interested in creating new work.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

I treat my projects as art.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

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

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.