Creative Process Quotes

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You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well. — Charles de Lint
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
The creative process requires chaos before form emerges. — Marilyn Ferguson
People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward… — Chogyam Trungpa
The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography. — Jerry Uelsmann
For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how… — David Travis
I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague… — Lawren Harris
There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you… — Betty Comden
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming,… — Maria Popova
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and… — Jenna Bush
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. — Catie Curtis
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been. — Lukas Foss
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release. — Eddie Van Halen
I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic! — Tom Hodgkinson
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative… — Tom Hodgkinson
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring… — Tom Hodgkinson
What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and… — Jonathan Ive
When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an… — Marc Jacobs
I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something. — Amy Lee
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process. — Baz Luhrmann

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