Quotes About Creativity

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.

People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy.

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.

When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.