Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I need to write to be happy.

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

People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.

Art is not only about angst.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Can dancing change your life? Yes. It's changed mine. What I've learned is, it's not about how good you are technically. It's about your soul coming through. It's about having fun.

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.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

Good things will come from self-expression.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

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.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon – even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

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.