Quotes About Creativity

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.