Quotes About Creativity

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

I love to just work with new people in general. It's always really fun.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

I like to go into the studio and start work on a project when it's time. I don't like to do it too early or too late.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.

I've been very fortunate to work with people that I'm fans of.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.

My work is never just fashion, landscape, or portraiture; it's always kind of an odd mixture of everything. I like muddling it together.

When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

God created man, but I could do better.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.