Quotes About Creativity

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.