Dark Creativity Quotes

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

I hate this quality, but I can go to dark levels when we lose. It's not a panic attack, but there's anxiety. I'm inconsolable. I'm a train wreck. I'm being myself. Then I get this crazy, intense focus, where I get desperate not to be embarrassed again. That dark spot is what I tap into. Creativity comes from there.

I greatly enjoyed working as a freelance journalist, because it gets you out of the house, and it gets you talking to people, but it wasn't satisfying all of my cravings, and I knew that I needed to work with the other side of my brain - the darker, murkier side!

We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil ideas that run through everybody's head.

What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And I'm sorry to tell you this, but where your magic lives will always be a great dark space with scraps you fumble for. You must learn to sniff them out in the dark.

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations.

You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

I've always been into super upbeat, cute, uplifting progressions, but at the same time, I'm also a very dark person. I really like both sides, and I feel like I'm always trying to find some middle ground with music or style or anything that I do.

I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.