Quotes About Creativity

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

As a designer I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed. That's why I avoid all animal skins.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.

Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.