Quotes About Creativity

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Just to be involved in anything Disney, whether it's 'Avengers Assemble' or 'Planes' or straight-to-dvd work, it's great.

I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly.

Queen can't work like any normal group. They utilise each others' talents to the fullest. A lot of the band's ideas are revolutionary, a lot of the style is revolutionary.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

That's why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.