Quotes About Creativity

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.