Quotes About Creativity

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

I work in three shades of black.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.