Quotes About Creativity

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.