Quotes About Creativity

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.