Quotes About Creativity

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.