Creative Addiction Quotes

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

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

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like, once you start painting, you don't want to leave your brush and colours.

I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.