Quotes About Creativity

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

We work very, very hard to find that fine line where location is meaningful enough to be interesting to an advertiser but not so intrusive that it interrupts the creative flow of the show.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.