Quotes About Creativity

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.

If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

I'm always excited to work with actors.