Quotes About Creativity

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Doing Much Ado was such a special thing because I knew everybody involved. With people you hadn't worked with before, you would watch them on shows and want to work with them.

Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.