Quotes About Creativity

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.