Creative Existence Quotes

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.

We live in condensations of our imagination

Art is not a career - it's a life.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences ... From War to Peace is not from the strenuous to the easy existence; it is from the futile to the effective, from the stagnant to the active, from the destructive to the creative way of life ... The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree.

Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.