Quotes About Creativity

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.