Quotes About Creativity

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

Because I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

The life I live is my art work.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.