Top 35 Creative Practice Quotes
#2. Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.
Norman Foster
#3. All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#4. Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.
Scott Wolf
#6. Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.
John C. Maxwell
#7. You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.
Robin Sharma
#8. I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.
Kate Zambreno
#9. The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you're apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
Brian Eno
#10. I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read.
Michael Cadnum
#11. I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set ... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200.
Gemma Arterton
#12. Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.
Dave Hickey
#13. As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.
Robert James Thomson
#14. With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#15. Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.
Ashley Ormon
#16. Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.
Paul Feyerabend
#17. Hair is really where we can be creative. I have my "game hair," which is always different than how I'd wear it at practice.
Heather Mitts
#18. Innovation takes practice more than talent.
Debra Kaye
#19. I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight.
Harry Shum Jr.
#20. If Jobs and Wozniak had believed that IBM was the be-all and end-all, there would have been no personal computers.
Jimmy Maher
#21. This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.
Terry Tempest Williams
#22. One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
Woodrow Wilson
#23. The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.
Kandyse McClure
#24. First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
Octavia E. Butler
#25. Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.
Julia Cameron
#26. The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question, even if it is not in practice - or not yet - a decided one. So also is the truth or falsehood of every one of the miracle stories that religions rely upon to impress multitudes of the faithful.
Richard Dawkins
#27. Movement practice gets all your creative juices flowing. It doesn't just release your body, but it opens up your heart and empties out your mind, as well.
Gabrielle Roth
#28. Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing.
Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
#29. The counterculture had sought to practice the idea that creative personal expression was the essence of an authentic existence. The WELL, drawing strength from the Internet culture's belief that the market contains all values, put personal expression up for sale.
Lee Siegel
#30. I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.
Duncan Sheik
#31. Chandler again: "I have never liked anyone who disliked cats, because I've always found an element of acute selfishness in their dispositions.
The New Yorker
#32. He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, color, and complexion: he embraced the old statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore
#33. Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
Jeff Hawkins
#34. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
Terry Pratchett
#35. The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.
Simon Baker
