Quotes About Creativity

you know that I am, as it were, completely immersed in Musique - it is on my mind all day long - I love to plan - study - reflect on it (...).

The organ is in my eyes and ears the king of all instruments.

The thing is I have an inexpressible desire to write an opera again; it would make me so happy because it gives me something to compose which is my real joy and passion (...).

Yes, but I wasn't running around asking other people how to do it.

When I am traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep–it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Wir brauchen keine Dichter mit guter Grammatik. Zu guter Grammatik fehlt uns Geduld.

Electronic equipment replaces neither Eyes, Hands, nor Heart.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

In order to be a writer, Maugham continues: one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat….

If it's bad, I'll hate it because I hate bad writing. If it's good, I'll be envious and hate it all the more.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance

There I was at fifteen, on the hook, confronted by Matisse and Chagall, by Nolde, Kirchner, and Schmidt-Rotluff, by Guernica and the frantic wall-sized Jackson Pollock, by the Beckmann triptych and Louise Nevelson's dark black sculpture.

What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it's the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don't think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I've said. And I laugh at it, because I'm hearing it for the first time myself.

I am one who shares Saul Bellow's estimate of Hemingway rather than John Updike's. I could pick up any book of his and turn to any page and read and the poetry of his prose kills me.

They're all gone. Truffaut, Resnais, Antonioni, De Sica, Kazan. At least Godard is still alive, but he always was a nonconformist

soprano saxophone for their delectation (years later

Se di tanto in tanto non hai degli insuccessi, è segno che non stai facendo nulla di davvero innovativo.

There are millions of comedians around or certainly there were when I started. They play nightclubs, or on TV, or at private functions, and they all need material: jokes, bits, routines, something to say. Most of them were not very good as evidenced by the fact that they needed other people to put words in their mouth, funny words. If left on their own, they couldn't coax a chuckle from a manic fat man on laughing gas.

And then I started to think, that the less I know about what people think of my work, the better off I am.