Quotes About Creativity

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

Making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.