Quotes About Creativity

to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)

Hidden in every limitation lies an opportunity. And for every obstacle you face, there is a simple and perfect solution, creatively. And your work is to find it. Where it gets tough is you need to fucking find it in five minutes.

Normally my clients were my mother, my grandmother, and my dad, and I would sell them the issues with a great color cover. There was a story I remember called 'The Invader,' and it had an invisible dome covering a city, with a giant tentacled monster eating everybody in sight, and people trying to drill a hole in the dome. And I did these epic Prismacolor pencil illustrations and sold out the three issues to my captive audience.

And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine—liver, intestines, the heart—fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.

As a kid, I dreamed of having a house with secret passages and a room where it rained 24 hours a day

Elisa lives in a world of her own devising. That's obvious from the shoes. Zelda imagines Elisa's perception as one of those dioramas she saw in a museum, perfect little realms, breakable but not if you walk softly.

Soy un escritor, no su jodida secretaria! Mi casa no es una oficina, es el refugio de un hombre que intenta concentrarse cuarenta minutos seguidos.

The key is simply to uncover value in waste.

Problems are opportunities.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

What one writes is only the ashes of one's experience.

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.