Quotes About Creativity

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

Back to work. If I'm [writing] I'm not thinking about the crazy.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body.

We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.

I can't work without a Good L.A. weed. That's the thing you miss the most.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

I've reached a certain age where I love to work. I could just live here [at the studio].

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.