“You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too. — Lights Copy Share Image
“It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist,… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!' That's not what… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
“I work as much as fifty to sixty hours at a stretch," Kusama wrote in a 1961 article of her entrancing, utterly… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
You don't often see the words "Discipline" and "Dreaming" in the same sentence. But I believe this duality is critically important to… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
“Burn the verses, I'll write fiction - burn the fiction, I'll write music - burn the music, I'll adopt a new language… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I love sharing my world, and I love showing the creative process, whether we're in the middle of a design meetings for… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
My creative process is a bit manic at times, to be honest. I wake up Monday and Thursday stressed because I don't… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In making art you need to give yourself room to respond authentically, both to your subject matter and to your materials. Art… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review...again… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You need to create space for your creative process to thrive rather than expect it to operate in the cracks of your… — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
“I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to… — Jenna Dewan Copy Share Image
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting. — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
When you're making something or in any creative process, you've either seen, heard or read it a lot of times, and so… — Griff Copy Share Image
“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In his writings, particularly Life Force: The Creative Process in Man and in Nature (2004), Kelley expressed admiration for Ayn Rand and… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
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