Quotes About Creativity

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

I am exhausted if I don't work.

The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

I often work by avoidance.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

When I work I forget all the rest.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.