William Kennedy Quotes

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.