Quotes About Creativity

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it's seen as central to driving growth.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that's the job I do.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.