Quotes About Creativity

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.

If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.

I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.