Creative Discrepancy Quotes

To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.

There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.