Quotes About Creativity

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

I love to work with people and do what I love.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

On Sanjay and Craig, Ive had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

I really love Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Edward Norton. I also like Ryan Gosling and Rick Bentley. And of the girls I like Naomi Watts and Juliette Binoche, and I would like to work with...

The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.