Romain Rolland Quotes

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

I don't understand how people live without creating.

Creating means living.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

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!

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

I'm really happy when I'm actively creating things. When I'm frustrated and not excited, it's because I haven't written anything in a month or so.

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

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

I love what I'm doing, I love creating new things.

Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating because that is the only way he can be happy, that is the only way he loves, that is the only way he sings, that's the only way he can be at all. Creation is his innermost nature, no why is needed.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

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.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.