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Creative Process Quotes

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
- Alvin Ailey

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
- Josef Albers

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
- Tadao Ando

The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process
- James Baldwin

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
- Eric Bana

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.
- Peter Bart

Sometimes you know you find precious things in the creative process that you couldn't find out of it.
- Arthur Berger

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
- Judy Blume

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.
- David Boreanaz

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
- Eric Brown

Craft is part of the creative process.
- Gavin Bryars

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
- Julia Cameron

There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.
- Neve Campbell

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
- Catie Curtis

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
- Adam Duritz

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 characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.
- Michel Faber

I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and so I write for them, and for my own pleasure, and try not to brood too much over those who have different tastes. And I have written enough books now that I know the self-doubt and the anxiety are part of the creative process, and drive me to keep trying to do better, and keep me from becoming too cocksure about my writing, which is a form of creative death.
- Kate Forsyth

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

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.
- Lukas Foss

A compositionand every work of art is oneis created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.
- Jostein Gaarder

I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.
- Gil Gerard

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
- Garth Hudson

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
- William Hurt

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 no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.
- Jonathan Ive

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
- Lawrence Lessig

I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.
- Kristanna Loken

Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that emerges when it breaks.
- F T Mckinstry

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 itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.
- Paul Rand

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
- Rachael Ray

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
- Oscar De La Renta

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
- Alfonso Ribeiro

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 process tremendously stimulating.
- Sidney Sheldon

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
- Rachel Ward

The creative processes are so mysterious.
- Jimmy Webb

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
- Cynthia Weil

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 look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.
- Harvey Weinstein

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.
- Harvey Weinstein

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