Creative Feeling Quotes

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I have read a thousand screenplays, and I have acted in a handful of them, and I have felt when it feels good, the writing, and it feels natural, and feels funny or sad or honest or whatever it may be. You connect. And I felt when it feels like writing, when it feels stale, or when it feels artificial or forced, or too theatrical or whatever.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.

Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.

I know when something is going to work for me, and I feel when it's not, so I am going to carry that into the music.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

All my songs encapsulate a particular emotion.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.