Creative Quote by Agnes Meyer Driscoll

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

— Rex Brandt

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

— Peter Senge

The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we…

— Shaun McNiff

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in…

— Annabelle Selldorf

I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.

— Lisa Hanawalt

I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and…

— Joe Wright

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

— Marissa Mayer

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

— Seth Godin

“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a sense of…

— Erich Fromm

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Any creative professional lives on high emotions and while others might handle stress of life in a calmer manner, we are sensitive and vulnerable…

— Supriya Pathak

“For most of us, creative motivation requires a crisis—either externally, like a threat to our physical survival, or an internal crisis of intense suffering.”

— Amit Goswami