Creative Work Quotes - Page 5

• Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Years, Creative

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• Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Hands, Creative, Mind

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• Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

  Kenzo Tange

  Heart, Technology, Creative

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• If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Productive Work

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• I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.

  Ira Glass

  Heart, Years, Interesting

  "Your product sucks" by Tristan Louis, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2012.

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• Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

  Merlin Mann

  People, Creative, Magic

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• Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

  Marisa Tomei

  Interesting, Creative, Politics

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• It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Art, Thinking, Creative

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• Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

  Alvar Aalto

  Ideas, Creative, Needs

  Alvar Aalto, Alvar Aalto-museo (1994). “Alvar Aalto: points of contact”

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• All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

  Upton Sinclair

  Art, Optimistic, Creative

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• For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

  Yukio Mishima

  Creativity, Artist, Ill Health

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• All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Inspiration, People, Creative

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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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• At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

  Chris Noth

  Jobs, Son, Creative

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• In my view the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

  Will Self

  Writing, Views, Play

  "It's a wild, Wilde world" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2003.

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• I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Morning, Creative, Desire

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• I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Children, Thinking, Self

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Discipline, Creative, Students

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• For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.

  Otto Rank

  Mother, Children, Self

  Otto Rank Association, Otto Rank (1976). “Journal”

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• If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

  Eric Maisel

  Creative, Feel Good, New Life

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.220, Penguin

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• When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

  Eric Maisel

  Water, Creative, Encounters

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• While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.

  Eric Maisel

  Health, Ideas, Creative

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.163, Penguin

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• The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers of all ages can listen to favorite writers speaking about their books, have books autographed, meet many storybook characters and enjoy a day on the National Mall.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Character, America

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• Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

  Ira Glass

  People, Creative, Wish

  "Radio Host Ira Glass: Even The Most Successful People Once Doubted Themselves" by Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. June 24, 2014.

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