Quotes About Creativity

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.