Quotes About Creativity

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.