Quotes About Creativity

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.

Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you're taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different.

I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

If I work on music, it'll be for 10 hours a day, so sometimes I'll feel stressed, and I'll go for a two-hour walk. That sorts me out.

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.

I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

Writing about Jerusalem was very stressful; every word counts.

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.

I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to escape for a few minutes.

To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.

It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.

It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

Acting is fun, but directing is very stressful.

When you prepare an album, it's really hard and stressful and you don't get too much sleep.

It's always stressful working on a new piece, but it concentrates the energy.

Id been thinking about directing for a while. I write a lot, so I have a lot of scripts, and I have wanted to try this. I really enjoyed it, apart from directing myself - you kind of need another set of eyes on you, so that part was a little bit stressful.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

On stage you're supposed to have fun and play different licks and stretch out. You're not supposed to copy your records exactly.

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.