Quotes About Creativity

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.

No great work of art is ever finished.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

My favorite project is always the next one.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already