Quotes About Creativity

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.