Quotes About Creativity

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

Novel writing is solitary work.

The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.

I try to put my own history in my work.

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.