Quotes About Creativity

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these aspects of ourselves and of our personal lives into the work that we do.

To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique.

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

That's how I feel about the work. The work is solid, the work exists and will stay the same, but if you can have it playing and interacting with light, then it will always be different.

Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.

If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

I don't really think about my work in terms of whatever money it makes. That's just a bonus. I'm just going to do the work anyway, so whatever comes back is good with me.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.