Quotes About Creativity

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.