Quotes About Creativity

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

When you work in fashion, you need to work as a team. You cannot do anything on your own.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.