Artistic Stress Quotes

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

I try not to think about the success, because it's pressure to continue making music.

You could have written the biggest hit song, and all eyes are looking to you to write another one. It's not a thankless job; it's just an endless job.

I've been thinking a lot about the speed and spectacle in today's fashion industry, because they seem to mirror stresses in other creative fields.

I'd had my whole life to write my first album. I had my No. 1 and my third single out, and they go, 'Hey, guess what? We need to start recording the next one.' I'm like, 'Uh oh, I got to write another album. Well, how am I gonna write 'Should've Been a Cowboy' and 'Ain't Worth Missing' and all that again?' It took me forever to write the first one.

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

The hardest thing about being a manga-ka is that it's a weekly thing.

I think one of the reasons all the comics I worked with dropped off the log so early, and a lot of them did - Tony Hancock, Frankie, Sid James, it's dreadful really - was the stress. You can only be as good or better than the last show, and there's the permanent aggro of hoping you get the right writers and the right material.

It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.'

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.