Inner Necessity Quotes

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.