Clive Barker Quotes

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Sometimes it takes a long time for a picture to incubate. And every time I do that, the rewards are so much bigger than what I would have gotten if I had only done the same as I always do. So each time I make an effort and I get out of a lazy routine, it's amazing how big the reward can be. It's listening to those little ideas knocking on the door in your mind.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Definition is the death of discovery.

I find that stability is good for my creativity.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

Creativity takes courage.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.