Quotes About Creativity

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.