“Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.” KnowsArtPainCreativeMinutesGreat ArtOutput Author:Kanye West
“Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.” IfsYearsDonePlayFeelingsUsedFeltHoursBehindsCreativeMinutesFitTasksCrowdsGrantedPushingLeisureCrushed Book:Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958 Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958
“In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it."” FeelsKindSometimesCareProcessCreativePiecesMinutesStupidHugeGeniusEgoHolesFantasticTyrantsCreative ProcessDictatorRudeMisleadJellyfish Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.” IfsMotivationalPracticeCreativeMinutesEnd TimesSpend TimeEnvisioning Author:Robin Sharma
“I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.” PeopleMindLittlesKidsWaitingChangeActingTalkingCreativeFourMinutesMonthsSixCoachesQuittingLeagueCoachingSix MonthsJuiceGreat TimesLittle LeagueTalking About MeCreative Juices Author:James Caan
“You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.” IfsThinkingWayWritingWellsIdeasWholeHappensMovingSongThreeCreativeFiveMinutesMeetingsStudiosBunchTraitsHookAdhdCreative IdeasAlways Moving Author:will.i.am
“Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.” WorldNeedsDoeRealArtistCreativeMinutesExerciseFlowWarmPreparationEach DayReal WorldKeyboardsPianistGymnast Book:The New Creative Artist Source: The New Creative Artist
“For me it's much more like a little kid rebelling. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life. I come from the business side and Mark comes from the creative side, but every time a decision came up about Creep it was two emails, and we agreed. I've not had that ever with someone on the creative or the business side.” LittlesTwoKidsAgeSidesDecisionCreativeMinutesOppositesMarkHopefullyEmailLittle KidCreeps Author:Jason Blum
“The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing?” WayWritingKindFactsLastsSupportCreativeStudyMinutesCollegeBedCreative WritingMidwestLast MinuteBingeDuress Author:Lena Dunham
“When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.” KnowsShowsProcessResultsCreativeMinutesFashionMonthsSixRedLaborSevenShadeInchesCreative ProcessSix MonthsTediousFashion Show Author:Marc Jacobs
“I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]."” WellsSaidIdeasDifferentWarReasonWholeLastsBitsCreativeDoubtWrittenMinutesConversationCrisisSeriesScriptsVariousChiefsOfficersRejectedHuntsAnthemLast MinuteNational Anthem Author:Charlie Brooker