Quotes About Creativity

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

I work from the inside out.

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

I feel my work is a success in so far as I get to wake up every morning and do what I love to do more than anything in the world.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

I put my heart in my work.

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.