Quotes About Creativity

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight... but I believe that it is the way.

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.