Quotes About Creativity

Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?

I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

When you have a great idea, and don't rush it, things can work itself out.

Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.