Quotes about "Creativity & Arts"

Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent. ”

Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music. ”

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that. ”

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country. ”

Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process. ”

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me. ”

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands. ”

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually. ”

I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing. ”

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ”