Quotes About Creativity

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

Think inside the work - outside the work

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.