Quotes About Creativity

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

Deep play precedes deep work.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

It's important to stand up for your work - otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.

The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.

I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.