Quotes About Creativity

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

To work from nature is to improvise.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.