Quotes About Creativity

If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.