Creative Process Quotes

174 quotes by 158 authors

My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative… — Ricky Martin
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is,… — Alan Moore
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the… — Sinead O'Connor
Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz. — Chris O'Dowd
For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs. — Miguel
Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee,… — Paul Rand
I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops. — Oscar de la Renta
There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative… — Sidney Sheldon
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's… — Barbra Streisand
I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside… — Harvey Weinstein
One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?' — John Zorn
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth â€“ not a different truth: the… — Shelby Foote
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into… — Kurt Vonnegut
I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so… — Jim Henson
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting… — Marcel Duchamp
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his… — Michel Faber
So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals… — Paul Rand
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. — Graham Greene
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. — Irving Stone

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