Quotes About Creativity

My main thing is to chill with my kids. My daughter loves to work, as well-she loves to record and stuff-so I like to work with her.

It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.