Quotes About Creativity

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.

I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

It's hard to be objective about your own work.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

I've been thankful to work with some wonderful people and sort of combine forces with some folks that... like in recent years, working with Alan Ferber or his brother Mark who's a wonderful drummer.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

The more I work in fashion, the less I dress up. The first pair of jeans I made was for my own body-my "strange body," as I call it.