Eric Hoffer Quotes

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

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

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

I prefer writing originals.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

I love being creative in all forms.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

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

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.