Quotes About Creativity

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

I really wanna work with Kanye West. He's one of the few people I haven't got to work with yet that I really wanted to.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .