Quotes About Creativity

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

I think hard-working people have more opportunities no matter what on YouTube, regardless of gender.

When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.