T Quotes
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“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”
“The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies.”
“The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.”
“The creative process is just a process and you can't really separate it from life. Growing your hair is a creative process. Your body is creating hair. Being alive is a creative process. Whether it's growing something in the garden or growing a song, the material accumulates. It's the process of being alive; it's the passage of time. Things change.”
“The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity”
“The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.”
“The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creative revelations. Yes, its really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.”
“The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.”
“The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.”
Source: The Courage to Create
“The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.”
“The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.”
“The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe.”
Source: The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
“The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.”
Source: The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature
“The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.”
“The creative processes are so mysterious.”
“The Creative Revolution is over. Everybody is justholding onto their jobs and no one is ever going to say toa client... ‘Buy this or I’ll resign your account.’ You don’tdo it anymore. It’s now, the majority of the time... ‘How do you like it? When can I change it for you?’”
“The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.”
“The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.”
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel
“The creative, the restless, and the driven are not content with the status quo, and they look for ways to move forward, to do things that others have not. And once a pathfinder shows how something can be done, others can learn the technique and follow. Even if the pathfinder doesn’t share the particular technique, as is the case with Richards, simply knowing that something is possible drives others to figure it out.”
Source: Peak: How all of us can achieve extraordinary things
“The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.”
“The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'”
Source: My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
“The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.”
“The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.”
“The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.”
Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination
“The creative work place is based on a triangle with three vertices - culture, method, and people.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“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.”
“The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”
“The creative writer is a creator, yet his creative liberty should not be abused: his total dispositions should not squeeze the characters out of their will, thereby translating them into mental golems—respect your characters. Let them act and think for
themselves.”
Source: Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts
“The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.”
“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”
“The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.”
Source: Messiah’s Handbook
“The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.”
“The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way that music gets to connect with people. But the cost of silk is too expensive. And they won't lower their quality levels. So I can spend $2 million on a record and give it out in a democratic way. They could spend all their time making the greatest dress in the world, and it's just impossible to hand-make that many.”
“The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.”
“The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.”
Source: Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70
“The creativity is just something that, I don't know, you work very hard at, but part of you says that you were born with it. It's a craft like every other, you have to keep sharp and you have to be aware of your surroundings.”
“The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.”
“The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of experience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" creativity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.”
Source: Passionate Presence
“The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“The Creator cannot keep filling the vessel that is not interested, nor responding to the first blessing that He sent.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“The Creator chooses.”
“The Creator controls every circumstance of life.”
“The Creator created all things. In him all things hold together.”
“The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.”
“The Creator creates all creation.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The Creator creates things.”