Creative Process Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

  Maria Popova

  Motivational, Order, Ideas

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• I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Thinking, Talking, Creative

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• 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

  Artist, Creative, Lasts

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• 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

  Creative, Mind, Collaboration

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.

  Mick Jagger

  Air, Creative, Drug

  "Mick Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. December 14, 1995.

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• If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

  J. G. Holland

  Keys, August, Giving

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• Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.

  Miuccia Prada

  Thinking, Ideas, Design

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• In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Mother, Children, Father

  An Actor Prepares ch. 16 (1936)

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• ... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Heart, Thinking, Artist

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• Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Creative, Environment, Process

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• When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Believe, People, Expectations

  "Star Trek Into Darkness - Benedict Cumberbatch interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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