Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity.… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull.… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
The best thing you can do with actors is collaborate with them. My job is to inspire them to give their best.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying,… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it… — John Kao Copy Share Image
If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gods have imagine infinite possibility journey of discovery life manifestation minute moment reality realization recreating yourself school of learning want to be… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Jazz at Lincoln Center is something that is very necessary for the creative process. There's a couple of brothers running around New… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
The second and sometimes most important part of the creative process is performing it live, so that the work can evolve to… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know,… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
As far as producing, once we started shooting, I soon realized where the critical decisions about the movies were really being made,… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“The modern belief that highly advanced civilizations from other planets are visiting the Earth via spacecraft is a ruse. If real, they… — Jeffrey W. Mardis Copy Share Image
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages,… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
“There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“We alone control our final form through our conscious actions. We become the product of the movement of our mind and our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
I think, going into a room for an audition, the best thing you can do is represent who you are specifically as… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
Being behind the camera you have control; you have the ability to make decisions for characters, for where the story line's going… — Kurt Yaeger Copy Share Image
“ I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes,… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own.… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
![“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal , Nov. 20, 2009]” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6fc/cormac-mccarthy-181_authorship_creative-work-is-often-driven-by-pain-it_628097.jpg)
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