Quotes About Creativity

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.

My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

Wayne is my favorite person to work with though, because ooohh, oohh, Lil Wayne is just too good, he's just too good.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.