Creative Hunger Quotes

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

What can I say? I'm just a relevant dude. It's just natural. My hunger's still there. I still keep my ear to the streets. I record every song like it's my last. I just love music. I'm blessed.

I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

I'm looking, often, towards younger people, listening to how they're working, at least they're trying, and some of the old greats, too. Just to try to remain relevant and off-balance, but hungry and eager.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

I want to do everything and be greedy in that way - film, TV, radio, theatre. If it's juicy work, I want it!

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And you know, I don't sit there, I don't bask in the awards I've won, you know, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger. So for me personally, I just don't celebrate it. I'm happy, right now.

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

Musicians are hungry for new music.

Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.

It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.

I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More details come out, in the way another actor says something. It's always this investigative process. You come further and further to the truth, the more you escalate. I like to do a lot of takes. I have a hunger for it. I like to see what there is to discover in a scene, that hasn't been thought of.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized.