Quotes About Creativity

Always keep your best work.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.