Quotes About Creativity

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.