Quotes About Creativity

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

When I work I always find something.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.