Quotes About Creativity

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he — for some reason — thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

Art is what you can get away with.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

It's a big world and there are so many things to do. Why should we repeat the same thing? Of course, there are some people who are getting better and better in one direction. But I love continuous experiments and adventure, and to learn and grow from that.

All these works of the imaginative inventions unfortunately got into chronicles, which were made into books which everybody respected and believed, principally because they were thick, hard to hold, tedious, and old.

Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.

I like masculine aesthetics. But I also write, make art, have written poetry, and like feminine aesthetics as well. I am probably seen as too masculine by some and as too feminine by others, depending on how stereotypical they are. But I regard myself as a man in the classical mold — someone who develops the intellect, the physical body, and the spirit; creativity, courage, and compassion . . .

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

Okay, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?