Top 100 Quotes About Creative Process
#1. Some say that to struggle in life is the point of it all. Wisdom says that it is not in the struggling that life's creative process precedes, but in the deep knowing that your victory is already won.
Denis John George
#2. I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.
Ruskin Bond
#3. What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.
Jonathan Ive
#4. A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity.
Simon Pegg
#5. We didn't want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It's very rare to be able to do that. It's completely pure.
Julie Delpy
#6. It's always exciting to be a part of the development and creative process, and I hope to continue to do it. I feel like, especially in the comedic world, it's how things have to be done. You have to be a part of the motivating factor of getting the movie made. It's so hard.
Anna Faris
#7. What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.
Otto Scharmer
#8. The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
Marcel Duchamp
#9. Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.
Anthony Hopkins
#10. For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.
Miguel
#11. The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Alvin Ailey
#12. When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.
Mark Ronson
#13. Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.
Chris O'Dowd
#14. We're trained in school to equate mistakes with bad grades - something to be avoided at all costs. The alpha makers were somehow able to dodge that. They think that mistakes are just part of the creative process and maybe even the best way to learn.
Mark Frauenfelder
#15. The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.
George Lois
#16. I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.
Amy Lee
#17. Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.
Bob Proctor
#18. Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.
Gail Sheehy
#19. I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.
Chad Hurley
#20. Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.
Pearl Zhu
#21. You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
Charles De Lint
#22. Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.
Paulo Coelho
#23. I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
Bernard Arnault
#24. I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.
Carson Ellis
#25. The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
Judy Blume
#26. My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
Eric Bana
#27. The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.
Ice Cube
#28. If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning ... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.
Marion Woodman
#29. 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.
Dave Morin
#30. My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
Sinead O'Connor
#32. Leaders are creators. They bring their visions to fruitition through the creative process.
Phil Pringle
#33. Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
Lukas Foss
#34. The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe.
John Daido Loori
#35. All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
Julia Cameron
#36. People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
Chogyam Trungpa
#37. God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ...
Alfred North Whitehead
#38. I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.
Alexa Chung
#39. The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.
Casey Neistat
#40. In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.
Tom Hanks
#41. There is something about the creative process ... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened ... it's a sort of happy accident.
Betty Comden
#42. The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.
Twyla Tharp
#43. Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
Rachel Ward
#44. fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process.
Chris Baty
#45. Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
Epictetus
#46. But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process
Isocrates
#47. In movies, books & even music, to me, the true artist is the writer. Writers have to begin the creative process by making nothing into something before it can ever manifest into anything.
Chris Mentillo
#48. I'm very excited about dance and love it with a deep passion. I also struggle, tire and become discouraged. But what has always revived me ... has been the rebirth of energy each time the creative process is awakened and artistic activity begins to unfold even in some infinitesimal measure.
Anna Halprin
#49. We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.
Deepak Chopra
#50. We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?
Kazuaki Tanahashi
#51. There is a sequence about the creative process, and a work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be subtracted without disaster.
Seneca.
#52. Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
Catie Curtis
#53. For every dilemma, find at least three or four possible solutions. The creative process leads to better results.
Marilyn Suttle
#54. Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process.
Ilchi Lee
#55. The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.
Anne Roe
#56. Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
Alice Sebold
#57. I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
Alfonso Ribeiro
#58. Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.
Julia Cameron
#59. People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.
Grant Achatz
#60. Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.
Marian Keyes
#61. Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.
Adam Baldwin
#62. I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.
Lawren Harris
#63. Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.
Scott Kahn
#64. The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.
Lukas Foss
#65. Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process
it is, after all, black magic.
Edward Albee
#66. I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.
Art Alexakis
#67. Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#68. Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
Jamais Cascio
#69. Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#70. Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.
Isabel Allende
#71. There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
Adam Duritz
#72. I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.
Yuriy Tarnawsky
#73. As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.
Bridget Kelly
#74. I think 'slow writing' is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the 'slow food' movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process.
Rosaleen Love
#75. We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
Cynthia Weil
#76. Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
Zhang Xin
#77. Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.
Jenna Bush
#78. Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.
Michel Gondry
#79. I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.
Jenna Dewan
#80. Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.
Harvey Weinstein
#81. I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.
Todd Hido
#82. The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture that has irrevocably warped us all to varying degrees.
Lynn Coady
#83. The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.
Jerry Uelsmann
#84. The combination of being more deliberate about what you want, more clear about what you intend, and more sensitive to the way you feel is, in essence, what the Deliberate Creative Process is all about.
Esther Hicks
#85. I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.
Kristanna Loken
#86. I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.
Ellar Coltrane
#87. Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.
Mark Batterson
#88. It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.
Wallace D. Wattles
#89. Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
Lawrence Lessig
#90. It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.
Bernard Arnault
#91. I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
Oscar De La Renta
#92. I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.
William Beck
#94. I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.
Nicola Formichetti
#95. The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#96. There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
Sidney Sheldon
#97. Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.
Paul Rand
#98. If you stop your creative process every time you think you need to cheer yourself up, or rid yourself of emotional conflicts, your life will be over before you can create anything of any real significance.
Robert Fritz
#99. Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.
Robert Mankoff
#100. I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?
Corey Taylor
