Busy Quote by Twyla Tharp

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

— David Gray

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this…

— Michael Leunig

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

— Francis Bacon

“True creative impulses are preceded by a sort of darkness.”

— Delphine de Vigan

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

— Julia Cameron

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

— Jeff Bridges

What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.

— Otto Scharmer

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and…

— Terence McKenna

The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.

— Arthur Koestler

The creative mind is restless.

— Rishi Kapoor

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or…

— Leonard Bernstein

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu