Quotes About Creativity

Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.

I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.

I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

I work best when people are here to puncture me

I don't discuss works in progress.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push boundaries. I love it when my work freaks people out but it's all fake!

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

I think every collection is always a move forward. It's the same work - the process is always the same. The interesting thing is to try to achieve a certain nothingness.

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish Id had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.

Maroon 5 is crazy to me, I would love to work with them.

I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.