Quotes About Creativity

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

I can't wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

I want to do work where I have something to say.

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.

The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact that you know you're going to go to work with your best mate.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

I want longevity. I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to continue to do good work and projects that inspire me, and if I can have fun while doing it, that's the dream.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.