Creative Destiny Quotes

Every artiste's shelf life... is their destiny.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

I was born to be a musician.

I think I was always meant to write dark stories.

You are either born a writer or you are not.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.

What you write chooses you.

I knew from when I was six that music would be my life, and I used to spend most of my time in the music room.

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.