Quotes About Creativity

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

At times I'd much rather talk about other work.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.