Creative Block Quotes

• In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

  Julia Cameron

  Baby, Block, Progress Not Perfection

  Julia Cameron (2001). “Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way”, p.42, Penguin

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• Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

  Lukas Foss

  Wall, Block, Artist

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• A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

  Eric Maisel

  Fear, Block, Dark

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.

  Rainn Wilson

  Block, Believe, Journey

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.

  Rainn Wilson

  Photography, Block, Writing

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

  Nita Leland

  Block, Views, Creative

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, Block, Rushing

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• What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

  Alexi Murdoch

  Block, Gestation Period, Creative

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• The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Block, Mistake, Creativity

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• There's no excuse for having a mental or creative block in sound. You can just go out and collect things in the real world - they make the sound, not you. It's very restricting to always use a library for sound effects. It's much more interesting and freeing to go out and record new sounds because you never know what you're going to get.

  Gary Rydstrom

  Block, Real, Interesting

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