Quotes About Creativity

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!

Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.