creative habit Quotes

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.

Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

I write music every day.

I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

Paint something every day.

I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I just don't write.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn't scare you, doesn't shut you down. It should make you want to be there, and once you find it, stick with it. To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that's habit-forming. All preferred working states, no matter how eccentric, have one thing in common: When you enter into them, they compel you to get started.

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

When I'm home, I try to relax, but I still make music.

I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.