Quotes About Creativity

I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.