Quotes About Creativity

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

Work is the only device I know of.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.

I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.