Creative Work Quotes

107 quotes by 92 authors

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two… — Louise Wilder
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness… — Ayn Rand
If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing — Glenn Gould
You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is… — Ellen Lupton
Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it's seen as central to driving growth. — Jim Speros
The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve. There… — Viktor Schauberger
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially… — Lawrence Lessig
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s… — Lawrence Lessig
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment,… — Tennessee Williams
It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression.… — Constantin Stanislavski
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there… — Sigmund Freud
I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or mediocre people, except… — Bruce Barnbaum
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. — Austin Kleon
Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping. — Merlin Mann
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive… — Noam Chomsky
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that… — Andrew Greeley
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age. — El Lissitzky

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