Quotes About Creativity

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

It's always really scary to release new work.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.