Quotes About Creativity

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job

I never practice; I always play.

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

All good work requires self-revelation.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.

The work has to have room to breathe.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away.

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.