Margaret Bourke-White Quotes

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

It's all about trying to find those projects where you get to enjoy yourself, because I think that's when you create as well: when you're genuinely excited about something. Then you're not just doing it because it's your job.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I'm working.

There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. And then I also like to work nonstop, maybe for a year-and-a-half, and then take a year off.

I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.

Working with someone who's really passionate about it is great, because you become passionate, and then it's fun; it's not work anymore.

I love to create and play, I can't stop, hahaha!

The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.

Dustin Hoffman takes such pleasure in what he does and there's nothing tense about him. He exudes joy and passion for what he's doing and that infects everyone. It certainly put me at ease coming to work with him every day. I felt his confidence and freedom rubbed off. He doesn't censor himself or stop an idea because he thinks it might be wrong.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

I came to writing kind of late. I was an engineer, and the one thing I've learned is that you have to steer a project in the direction of the maximum fun for you. You could say lively energy, or you have to try to be intrigued. Basically, if you were a musician and you were playing joylessly, nobody would want to hear you.

In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.

I think it's real important to enjoy what you do, have fun with it and not to put the pressure on yourself of everyone watching.

You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work.

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.