Frustrated Creativity Quotes

The big, fun, ambitious ideas tend to come out of the frustration of talking for too long about the smaller, weaselly ones.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me telling a story that I felt most qualified to tell. And I loved it, and I'd love to do something else someday, probably more narrative-based. But I'm in no rush.

Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.