Quotes About Creativity

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.

I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.