Quotes About Creativity

Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.