Warren Bennis Quotes

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

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

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.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

I like to be in locations that I kind of feel are very creative, that stimulate me in a creative process.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

Pressure has always been more of a friend than a foe for me with songwriting.

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

When things get tough... Make good art.

I want the power that comes from expressing myself creatively and putting something back into the world. Being someone's muse would be flattering, but it could get old fast.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

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

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.