Creative Process Quotes - Page 6

• Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

  Edward Albee

  Creative, Black, Magic

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press

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• Leaders are creators. They bring their visions to fruitition through the creative process.

  Phil Pringle

  Creative, Leader, Vision

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• 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

  Heart, Creativity, Ideas

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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• Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.

  Walter Gropius

  Children, Law, Space

  Walter Gropius, Ise Gropius (1968). “Apollo in the democracy: the cultural obligation of the architect”

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• 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

  Cheer, Real, Emotional

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• If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a natural offshoot of the experimental and creative process and often learned more from their failures than their successes. By taking the attitude that failure is merely a detour on the way to our destination, hope can blossom into success.

  John Templeton

  Attitude, Failure, Successful

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• I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

  Alexa Chung

  Clothes, Creative, Lovely

  "Women of Britain - your designers need you!" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.

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• The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Thinking, Creative

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• I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

  David Cook

  Writing, Hands, People

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• With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

  John Cho

  Impact, Creative, Acting

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

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• I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

  Bobby Cannavale

  New York, Home, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

  Lynn Collins

  Creative, Way, Roles

  "Lynn Collins JOHN CARTER Set Visit Interview". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

  Chris Ofili

  Doors, Creative, Trying

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.

  George Gilder

  Order, Creative, Needs

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

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• 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

  Long, Creative, Inability

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

  St. Vincent

  Creative, Ears, Way

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• I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

  Chris Cornell

  Creative, Age, Process

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• One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

  Damon Lindelof

  Mistake, Lessons To Be Learned, Creative

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• 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

  Fun, Adventure, Mean

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Moonlight & Vines”, p.379, Macmillan

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• 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

  Letting Go, Creativity, Illumination

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• The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Creative, Chaos, Form

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• 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

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

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• The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, Creative, Photographer

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• For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

  David Travis

  Photography, Artist, Creative

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Creative

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