Creative Desire Quotes

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

I wish I could draw.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

The landscape is one of the kinds that I think, at least this body of work is the least selfish of the stuff that I've done. It's all selfish. It is making images of things that I want to see, that turn me on, that make me happy, that satisfy me.

If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that.

I've always wanted to make a record.

Making music is something I've always wanted to do.

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel that I need a balance of all types of humans.

I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.

Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I think that, wherever you are in the world, that impulse exists within human beings.

Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me to go into the sciences. And I was a good girl. And I did what Daddy said. And that's how I ended up being a doctor. But you know, you just can't stamp out that desire to tell stories.

When I see a great film I do wish I was part of it, that happens.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do.

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.'

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you're connected by a creative desire.