Don DeLillo Quotes

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.