Nighttime Creativity Lover Gifts

Painter retouching painting

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

Bright Idea

Thinking outside of the box

"Could you keep still?"

"OK team, we need innovative solutions and we need 'em fast!"

'Great idea, Philpott. Wish you'd thought of it.'

"Life is too short! Why should I waste my time frantically searching for a mate when I can create art instead..."

Stopping smoking at work had given Tim the energy to explore his creativity ... 'And I like to call this my dance of the fourth quarters 'profit and loss' account.'

'Man asleep in double bed with a pencil.'

Octopus Puppet Show (colour)

An idea box in a shower

"Poor dear, she's just discovered all these years she's been the muse for a plagiarist."

Patents office.

Harp Concerto for Four Hands and Ladder

Baseball Dreams

"'Talent borrows, genius steals' - that's one of mine, too."

'Please excuse the mess. The interior decorators are in.'

"Goodnight, Dan, you handsome devil!"

A stairway leading into a heart leads out from the brain.

"Terri and Kip make up our crazy dreamer imagineering department. Al is our get-realinator."

'We made something greater than sliced bread, we built a better mousetrap...are we resting on our laurels?'

When cartoonists get ahead of themselves.

Colours

Keyboard player

Now that I've written the book, could you put in a good word with the sales team's muse?

'Actually, this is when I'm at my most creative, when I don't seem to be doing anything.'

Seated man whose head is an abstract sculpture.

The Copywriter's Dilemma

"When Van Gogh had insomnia he created masterpieces."

A Cartoonist's and a Sculptor's File Cabinets.

Bypass the Falls

Falling for art

'It's creative as hell! Now that you've got that out of your system, give me a campaign that will sell.'

The Creative Process