Quotes About Creativity

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing. I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've figured out that I do my work for everybody to see. That's the whole point.