Quotes About Creativity

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

A lot of my work just sort of flows and comes out of me and I don't know why or where.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

I work best inundated with things when it's like raining information.

Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.