“It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.” ThinkingPersonsSelfEasyWaitingProcessVoiceAnswersCreativeSpecialConsciousRight ThingSelf ConsciousCreative Person Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.” ProcessCreativityCreativeRiskMaterialsLetting GoConsciousImpressionCertaintyPreparationCreative ProcessPhasesEditingGatheringInterventionIlluminationRevisionImmersionIncubation Author:Gail Sheehy
“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.” ChildrenStillsSelfWholeSeemsMotherIndividualResultsCreativeEvolutionBirthMassConsciousConsequenceBlindImpulseRebirthSelf ConsciousCreative Work Book:journal Source: journal
“Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.” MindArtDecisionCreativeConsciousArt IsFinalsAbstractUnconsciousConscious MindAbstract Art Author:Lawren Harris
“Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.” WantLittlesCharacterUsePastImaginationCreativeConsciousTheatreStuckCreative Imagination Author:Stella Adler
“Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.” ThinkingInspirationalMindSometimesSufferingUniverseConsciousnessKnownCreativeMovementWindEvolutionConsciousBoundariesUnconsciousQuantumSailMonkeysProcessingMonkey Mind Author:Amit Goswami
“The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.” PeopleMindArtFactsSeemsDealsCreativeEmotionalConsciousAreasIndependentPursueChiefsIntensityProphecyWholenessIntegrationFragmentsAnalogiesDisturbanceCreative Power Author:Northrop Frye
“The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.” MenFirstsChildrenHas BeensSaidWholeEyeForceDifferencesWonderCreativeSeeingIgnoranceGeniusThousandOceanEternalConsciousInfiniteRemainsMeetingsDelightVisibleAdmirationPerpetualFountainInfinite PowerEyes Of A Child Book:The Stones of Venice Source: The Stones of Venice
“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.” IfsRealityArtistProcessNaturalAbilityCreativityCreativePossibilityPaintingSucceedElementsCreatingConsciousIndependentCreative ProcessTransformingHintsNatural Phenomena Author:Frantisek Kupka
“Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.” WayMindIdeasUseShowsDreamFallCreativeBlessingSolutionsConsciousInsightYour DreamsSubconsciousAffirmationInvitationsCountingFertileSubconscious MindConscious MindCreative IdeasPositive AffirmationsCount Your Blessings Author:Genevieve
“[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.” NeedsKindUseAbleCreativeComedyCollegeSkillsComfortableConsciousBe CreativeBoston Author:Amy Poehler
“One of my jobs was at a start-up ad agency. They were trying to do things differently, work with socially conscious clients, and to really be a more creative take on advertising than the industry itself. But I noticed that what the guys at the office were circulating for inspiration still came from within the ad industry. I thought that was really counterintuitive - to only borrow inspiration from within your own industry.” TryingStillsInspirationJobsGuyCreativeIndustryOfficeConsciousAdvertisingAgencyAdsClients Author:Maria Popova
“Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.” IdeasCreativityCreativeConsciousStreamsFountainRushingCreative Ideas Author:Nita Leland
“Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is the first time I've ever played a guitar. What am I going to do?”. That's one way of getting straight through the conscious mind into the subconscious layer where the true creative spirit lies.” WayTryingMindFirstsSpiritLyingSongForgetCreativeApproachConsciousFirst TimeEmptyGuitarOne WayLayersSubconsciousConscious MindForget EverythingCreative Spirit Author:Edge
“Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you are conscious. Never think with wrong beliefs, and never be attached to wrong beliefs, that you are uncreative.” ThinkingMenBeliefExistenceCreativeTreeRocksConsciousCulmination Author:Rajneesh
“We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.” ActionUniverseProcessUnderstandingAbilityCompassionCreativeMeditationEvolutionConsciousConnectionsStillnessCreative ProcessAccelerate Author:Deepak Chopra