Quotes About Creativity

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.