Quotes About Creativity

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.