Quotes About Creativity

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work - or something outside of work.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.