Quotes About Creativity

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

A writer, or any artist, can't expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it's your calling.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.