Quotes About Creativity

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

I think digital. I think digital and I was terrified about it for a long time. But I think digital because it gives so much more freedom to work with the actors.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.