Creativity and Meaning

I've been having this creativity block, be it for drawing, painting or writing. I feel like I'm missing things.

Going in the same vein as the Anais Nin quotes from before, I found some more about writing, life and meaning. I'm using this time off to learn more about life, and I think this will ultimately help me in my artistic pursuits (even though I have to actively pursue this!). I love these quotes because they seem so true. Sometimes I feel like I lack emotion, or that the emotion I do have is contrived, like from a book or movie or painting. The sadness or happiness is not my own but the one given to me by a work of art. Or when I do feel, for real, it unnerves or disturbs me so greatly that I become depressed, in a way.

More Nin Quotes:

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.