Creative Work Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

  Joyce Johnson

  Sacrifice, Dedication, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed[..].

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Space, Creative, Ironic

  Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.99, Basic Books

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• I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Children, Powerful

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• You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Creative, Doe

  Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

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• This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.

  Georgiana Burne-Jones

  Wall, Selfish, Artist

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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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• 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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• 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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• If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

  Kate Baldwin

  Creative, Want, Do It Yourself

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• British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Creative, Realizing

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2009.

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• The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

  George Polya

  Science, Creative, Guessing

  "Induction and Analogy in Mathematics". Book by George Polya, 1954.

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• The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in
  striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Simple, Men, Creative

  A letter to his wife Polly in October 1938. "Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard" by Russell Miller, p. 81, 1987.

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• I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Creative, Age, Doe

  "The Daniel Day-Lewis Nine Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 17, 2009.

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• 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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• We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.

  Anne Waldman

  Mean, Pride, Creative

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain, Writing, Nuts

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