Quotes about Creativity

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.

The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

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.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.