Quotes About Creativity

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.

Writing is hard work.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.