Quotes About Creativity

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.