Quotes About Creativity

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

A writer's life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

Nobody's going to like my next movie because they liked Trainwreck [2015]. It has to work on its own, and that keeps it really scary.

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.