Quotes About Creativity

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where the ideas come from - from years of working on it and thinking about it.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.