Quotes About Creativity

The designer must think first and work later.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

The more I work, the more I want to work.

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.