Creative Aging Quotes

People who are creative, who do it as a lifestyle, it's kind of silly to make that claim you're done, because you just never know when that spark is going to hit you again. You can't necessarily predict how you're going to feel. In ten years I'll be 58, and I might still feel like making a punk record.

If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.

For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.

If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

I'm hoping to have a ninth decade like Matisse's.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time.

I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.