Quotes About Creativity

I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.