Quotes About Creativity

I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

I'm back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.