Creative Work Quotes

107 quotes by 92 authors

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is… — Carl Jung
I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to… — Marian Keyes
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's… — Stephen Leacock
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord… — Alexander Pope
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. — Friedrich Schiller
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and… — Steven Pressfield
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no… — Hermann Hesse
No writing is a waste of time â€“ no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write,… — Brenda Ueland
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. — Ayn Rand
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all.… — Toni Morrison
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater… — Bertrand Russell
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used… — David Byrne
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and… — Mary Oliver
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased… — Stephen Jay Gould
The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy… — Marianne Williamson
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious. — Viktor E. Frankl
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her… — Betty Friedan
Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening. — John Taylor Gatto

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