It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it’s utterly glorious." National Novel Writing Month… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and… — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I can play a real woman finally. It was like a dream come true. It is a very difficult character, very demanding… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
It's not my job at the Institute to teach where people are in the art world - in the world of art… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
“The unencumbered mind recalls all that it has read, all that pleased the eye, and delighted the ear, and reflecting on every… — Attributed to Zimmerman by Henry M. Stanley Copy Share Image
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball… — Virginia Wade Copy Share Image
The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part… — Frantisek Kupka Copy Share Image
Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in… — John Kao Copy Share Image
If you stop your creative process every time you think you need to cheer yourself up, or rid yourself of emotional conflicts,… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
“The word 'brand' makes me shudder because of its links to commercialism and selling out. But the truth is that because great… — Rod Judkins Copy Share Image
I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
“You get in life what you create. Expectation drives the creative process. What do you expect? You expect whatever it is you're… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning… The creative process shrivels in… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I think cooking has the same creative process as designing, where you have the ingredients, you have the alchemy part of it,… — Cynthia Rowley Copy Share Image
I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we… — Carla Azar Copy Share Image
In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker's own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Most good actors you work with, they actually bring something to the creative process and to the script. They help shape the… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the… — Bobby Cannavale Copy Share Image
