Quotes About Creativity

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I'd never work again. So I'm going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn't let me do.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I am. I can't eradicate my defects. I can work on them."

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.