Quotes About Creativity

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

If I'm good at something, I'm good at something, and if I'm bad at something, I'm just bad at something. Gender shouldn't have anything to do with any of my work or anything I produce or create.

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.