Quotes About Creativity

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

The phrasing didn't work as well.

When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

All of us are extremely competitive. We're kind of competitive with how we work on Radiohead stuff. Having said that, there's also a lot of support.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.

I think the people who work with me are people who love style themselves. I'm leaving the office and they're still working. They're passionate.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's culture.

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

My body is a gradual work of art