Quotes About Creativity

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

A lot of times I pick passion projects but at the end of the day, I don't think much of what's going to work, I want to think about how it feels to do the work.

I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

If you're a fan of my work and I'm a fan of your work, it just seems logical for us to work on something together.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.