Rudolf Nureyev Quotes

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I don't use tools to create things, but I use them to realize things.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

You can't rush inspiration.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

We can invent only with memory.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.