Quotes About Creativity

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.