Quotes About Creativity

Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.