Creative Longing Quotes

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

I love to sing. Seriously, in my past life I was Miley Cyrus or something. I swear I'm a singer, but I know I'm not. If I could sing, I would be the happiest person on Earth.

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

My problem is I'm not talented enough to do everything, but I want to do everything. I'm like, 'Oh God, I wish I could dance! Oh God, I wish I could rap!' I can't be a rapper, and I'm sure as hell not going to be able to dance for a living, but I want to do it all, you know?

I wonder what it would have been like if I could actually sing.

So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.

When I used to listen to the poets in other languages and the kind of appreciation they received, I wanted to be there on the dais and experience that myself.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.