Quotes About Creativity

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.