Quotes About Creativity

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

We're using our creativity to learn how to work with Divine Spirit, how to come into harmony with life around us.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I'm writing. I don't see anything else, I don't think about anything else.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.