Quotes About Creative

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

I definitely do not think of makeup as, like, a validation type thing. For me, it's a creative outlet and an art form. It's not like, 'Oh my God, I need to feel pretty.' It's like, 'This is so cool. I just created art on my face.

I think, for me, the only real value to fame, stuff like that, is that you can then have a lot more creative power to get certain movies made and to do certain things.

People don't realize you can't copyright a plot," Alessandro said finally. "You can't even copyright a title, and that would be a lot easier to make an argument about.

I have a lot of writing to do and not as much time as you'd think. I do it at night now and look a bit haggard afterwards.

Any social arrangements which inhibit or constrain the free creative capacity [of human beings] are fundamentally illegitimate unless they can justify themselves.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.