Quotes About Creativity

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

I work with my dreams or nightmares.

Don't be afraid to discard work you know isn't up to standard. Don't save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

I work on drawing as a final product.