Quotes About Creativity

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.