Quotes About Creativity

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

I want to be a living work of art.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

You've got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don't work...

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.