Creative Necessity Quotes

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Who really needs a new album from me?

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

Music feels like a six sense to me, and it's never been just a hobby. It's something that I have to do to breathe. It's an extension of who I am.

A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.