Quotes About Creativity

When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.