Quotes About Creativity

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.