Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative…

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

— Burt Rutan

When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!'…

— Burt Rutan

Confidence in nonsense is required.

— Burt Rutan

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,…

— Anonymous

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process…

— Bernard Arnault

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and…

— Marcel Duchamp

Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional…

— Dave Stevens

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in…

— Adam Duritz

I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement,…

— Antony Hegarty

The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and…

— John Kao

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

— Adam Baldwin

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

— Catie Curtis

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And…

— Susanne Bier

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

— Stephen L. Carter