Quotessence
Home / Topics / Creative Process Quotes

Creative Process Quotes

Browse 713 quotes about Creative Process.

Related topics

ThinkingCreativityPeopleWritingIfsWayKnowsArtArtistKindWantDifferentIdeasTryingFeelsSometimesWorldFirstsGivingSongWellsActingDoneActorsDoeInvolvedNeedsBelieveCoursesCreatingHappensImaginationLongMeanAbleActionCharacterDesignEndsFilmFormI CanImagineImportantJoyMadeMayMindPersonsProblemStoriesTogetherVisionWanted

Creative Process Quotes

“I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process.”

PeopleThinkingIdeasMomentsProcessChallengesPerfectInterestingCreativeFiveIndustryEntrepreneurAverageBackgroundsAppropriateSurroundCreative ProcessDiverseHungCompetitorsInteresting ThingsGreat IdeaBreedingSurround YourselfSurround Yourself With People
Author:Alexis Ohanian
Create image

“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.”

WritingCharacterUniverseLanguageFunProcessPartyFictionCreativeLonelinessLonelyFinishedDrawingListsOccupationGuestsCreative ProcessSolitaryWriting FictionEavesdropping
Author:Hilma Wolitzer
Create image

“Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.”

LongArtTwoEndsBigsEyeLastsYoungTurnsProcessCreativeSpringLogicPopsDecadesHungryPainterIceAtmosphereAbstractBoredomGloriousCreative ProcessCreamIce CreamExaltedNewbornHamburgersSodaFinalityPinnacleCoca ColaExpressionismSaturationAbstract ExpressionismCream Soda
Author:Robert Indiana
Create image

“People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.”

PeopleBelieveMeanMadeDoneProcessLinesMistakeCreativeTakenRiskFaultsBottomWorthwhileCreative ProcessBottom LineMade A MistakeTaking RisksI've Made Mistakes
Author:Zach Braff
Create image

“We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”

KnowsRealityProcessCreativeReflectionCreative ProcessPlatoConstructsPlato S
Author:Naum Gabo
Create image

“Gods have imagine infinite possibility journey of discovery life manifestation minute moment reality realization recreating yourself school of learning want to be Life is a creative process, not a journey of discovery or a school of learning. You're not discovering yourself, but recreating yourself. So don't try and figure out who you are, but establish who you want to be. You create your reality every minute, probably without realizing it. You can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. Didn't I say you were gods?”

WantLifeTryingMomentsRealitySchoolLife IsProcessRealizingCreativeImagineJourneyMinutesFiguresPossibilityDiscoveryInfiniteWho You AreRealizationManifestationBe YouDiscoveringCreative ProcessInfinite PossibilitiesGod LifeDiscovering Yourself
Author:Neale Donald Walsch
Create image

“It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.”

MenWorldNeedsLooksHeartPurposeProcessImaginationVisionCreativeAchieveAchievementShiningNotionIgnorantMotiveToysCreative ProcessInitiativeBattlefieldsLoftyCorrespondenceJuvenile
Author:Eric Hoffer
Create image

“Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet state of equilibrium-impossible to achieve in an evolving system. Though refraining from harm is an essential first step, lasting peace is created by actively redressing harm done. Peace is a creative process of actively joining I and thou into a co-creative we. It requires authentic communication, empathic listening, and wildly creative solutions.”

FirstsStatesDonePeaceProcessStepsCreativityCreativeImpossibleAchieveCommunicationListeningQuietEssentialsDiseaseSolutionsHarmAbsenceEvolveLastingFirst StepsCreative ProcessWarfareJoiningEquilibriumCreative Solutions
Author:Anodea Judith
Create image

“Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been able to hit that mark. The same with penciling. Sometimes it just flows, but more often than not, it's pure physical and spiritual torment just to get something decent on paper. I often get very discouraged with the whole creative process.”

KnowsWellsI CanSometimesWholeHandsAbleJobsSpiritualProcessNumbersCreativePurePaperCapableFlowMarkCriticsGenuineDecentValleysCreative ProcessFlashHarshBrushesTormentDiscouragedOccasionalVirtuoso
Author:Dave Stevens
Create image

“It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.”

PurposeProcessVisionCreativeGratitudeSticksGuidesCreative Process
Book:The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
Create image

“The universe is a multi-dimension al creative process, constantly forming new facets of possibility for you and all living things. Expanding our awareness of the process, we allow ourselves to experience more of it. Every moment we can remember that ANYTHING is possible in a realm of endless possibility.”

InspirationalMomentsRememberUniverseProcessCreativeAwarenessPossibilityInspirational LifeExperienceEndlessRealmsDimensionsAlsCreative ProcessExpandingLiving ThingsFacetsAnything Is PossibleLecturerInfinite PossibilitiesEndless PossibilitiesRealm Of Possibility
Author:Marianne Williamson
Create image

“Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.”

KnowsArtSocialProcessChallengesAcceptingCreativityCreativePlanetsUltimateInstitutionsEmbraceSurrenderPassingPassingsPrimariesOutcomesCherishConformityCreative ProcessOur PlanetFind MeInsistingEmbrace LifeSocial Being
Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch
Create image

“Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.”

MindFirstsFormProcessGoalImaginationStepsCreativeClearAchieveCreationConsciousPossessionAidsSensesPrimariesFirst StepsCreative ProcessConscious MindAchieving GoalsConcise
Author:Bob Proctor
Create image

“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.”

WayGivingAbleArtistLanguageProcessCreativeShapesSpringFinishedUnconsciousCreative ProcessTranslateFinished WorkActivation
Book:The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature
Create image

“We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.”

WayArtFormJoyProcessEmotionCreativeEventsFitBirdReactionsBreakupCreative ProcessInfatuationEmergingSqueezing
Book:How Music Works
Create image

“The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I am, where I’m going and what I still want to achieve from this life in music. In my heart I feel vital and passionate about the creative process and that my best work is the next one I finish. It doesn’t necessarily work out that clean, but for me, it can be the only touchstone.”

ThinkingWantFeelsHeartArtStillsNextProcessCreativeAchieveMy HeartCleanPassionateAlbumsWork OutRealizationThis LifeCreative ProcessSoloBest WorkObscurityThe Next OneTouchstonesDeep Thinking
Author:Iain Matthews
Create image

“Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.”

WorldGivingShouldChildrenFormLawProcessSpaceCreativeEnvironmentSupremePsychologicalEnjoymentVisualsCreative ProcessParticipating
Book:Apollo in the democracy: the cultural obligation of the architect
Create image