Creative Need Quotes

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that we do create it and also crave it is beyond dispute.

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

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

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.

I can't work without music.

I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.'

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

It is essential for artistes to have that release of creativity, almost as necessary as eating food or drinking water.

I love painting and have a need to do it.