Quotes About Creativity

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

I feel lucky to love what I do. It doesn't feel like working. I do all the projects I do because I like doing them, whether it's a book or a photo shoot. For me, my work and my life are the same.

I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.

I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra next to a song that has other things?" I just work on it as-needed.

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

This is very much part of my style, I work a lot on the back ­- I love the back of clothes for men. I love even T-shirts printed behind. I think, "Why do you want to show only the front?"

If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work.

Making work without memory is probably one of my biggest fears. It would be indistinguishable from work that is lazy.

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.