Quotes About Creativity

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

I love doing photo shoots... I mean, if I could just sign with IMG and do ad campaigns and model more, I'd do that... Because that's fun for me. That's not work.

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, Id like to work with him again someday.

I would like to work with a great producer who I haven't met yet. I'm not sure who he is, but I'm looking for someone to take me to the next level.

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.

I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.