Quotes About Creativity

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

I'm a big fan of TIËSTO, and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

One works without thinking how to work.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Work for money, design for love.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.