Creative Process Quotes

• You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Creativity, Reflection

  John Daido Loori (2007). “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life”, p.1, Ballantine Books

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• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

  Francis Bacon

  Skills, Creative, Culture

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• There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Inspiration, Creative, Three

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• 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

  Dance, Time, Creative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

  Julia Cameron

  Letting Go, Creativity, Creative

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Nov 02, 2015

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• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Commitment, Emotional

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, Penguin

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• 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

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

  Martial

  Creative, Thieves, Pages

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• Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

  Catie Curtis

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.56, U of Minnesota Press

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• 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

  Jobs, Creative, Cinema

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• Craft is part of the creative process.

  Gavin Bryars

  Creative, Crafts, Process

  klassiknet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Gods have imagine infinite possibility journey of discovery life manifestation minute moment reality realization recreating yourself school of learning want to be Life is a creative process, not a journey of discovery or a school of learning. You're not discovering yourself, but recreating yourself. So don't try and figure out who you are, but establish who you want to be. You create your reality every minute, probably without realizing it. You can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. Didn't I say you were gods?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, School, Journey

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination   Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Imagination, Fuel

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• I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Artist, Creative, Restless

  "The Horror" by Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2010.

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Stealing Things, Imagination

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• I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

  Duke Ellington

  Dog, Creativity, Ice Cream

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• 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

  Creative, Directors, Paper

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• Do not take the creative process personally. At every stage, you are going to feel like it's all falling apart, like the golden egg of truth in your brain is not manifesting on the page or on set or in the edit. But that panic, that loss, that pain - that is the process of creation. Let it hurt, drink some coffee and keep going.

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.

  Otto Scharmer

  Creativity, Space, Creative

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• Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

  Epictetus

  Confidence, Creative, Requirements

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