Quotes About Creativity

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

When its comes to music and books 'OK' is not good enough. We need creative work that floors us! That we can't believe the beauty and brains and style and cool of. 'OK' can kiss my arse.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

People work better when they are afforded to be themselves

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

Work? It's just serious play.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

Some people say I'm a dreamer, others say, 'If you fall asleep at work again we're going to have to let you go'.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.