Quotes About Creativity

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.