Creative Work Quotes - Page 4

• Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Creative, Shooting

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• Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Creativity, Break Through, Ideas

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• Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.

  Merlin Mann

  Creative, Stopping, Each Day

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2008

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• The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Order, Goal, Confusion

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• One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

  Anton Chekhov

  Creative

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, August 18, 1891.

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• Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.

  Shaun Tan

  Art, Inspiration, Creative

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• Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

  Joichi Ito

  Inspiration, Creativity, Past

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• To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and to present the character in a reflection of the times, is an absolutely incredible accomplishment. Hats off to all these people who have done such incredible creative work and still do every week.

  Michael Uslan

  Character, Reflection, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing. I play when I want. That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends. My core desired feelings are my time management system.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Mean, Play, Focus

  "Danielle LaPorte | Multimedia Author, Speaker, Poet". Interview with Rachel Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

  Zaha Hadid

  Creativity, Creative, Levels

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Technology enables consumers and investors to have extraordinary choice and ease of switching, which, in turn, stimulates much fiercer competition than ever before, which, in turn, makes it imperative for every institution to innovate like mad. That innovation is powering our economy these days, and it requires companies to find and utilize creative workers. That's the most important syllogism going; technology is embedded in that syllogism, but it's not as if we're seeing these productivity gains because of the technology.

  Robert Reich

  Technology, Mad, Choices

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely liberating as well as artistically clarifying... Being practical about where your money comes from means you can be romantic about your writing... I believe that a healthy society is one that supports its artists, but I also know that that privilege, of being only an artist, is afforded to just a small number. Most of us have to find something else - or live a highly disciplined life, which I'm not willing to do.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Believe, Writing, Mean

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

  Leandra Medine

  People, Personality, Creative

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think food can be dangerous to write about because if you don't manage to mediate it somehow, it can be the worst sort of greeting card.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Writing, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

  Jim Lee

  Creating, Creative, Happy Accidents

  "Why Jim Lee And Dan DiDio Decided To Reboot DC Comics [Video]". Interview with Kevin Ohannessian and Adam Barenblat, www.fastcompany.com. January 18, 2012.

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• The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

  Karen Horney

  Creativity, Men, Creative

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

  Edward Weston

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

  "Daybooks".

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• If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ideas, Giving, Creative

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.

  Sam Maloof

  Thinking, Creative, Important

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• The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Ideas, Imagination

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• In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.

  Louise Wilder

  Art, Lying, Apology

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• It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working. But we said, why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk? Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.

  David Chipperfield

  Creative, Important, Workplace

  "Box clever". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2007.

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• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  Dan Glickman

  People, Creative, Entertainment

  "US teenager faces jail for film piracy". www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2005.

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• I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

  Winston Graham

  Typewriters, Empathy, Creative

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