Quotes About Creativity

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

About my method of work: first it's the state of mind—Elation (joy).

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.