Quotes About Creativity

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a lot more work on TV playing clean but it's never interesting.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.