Top 1200 Creative Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board.

Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.

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 controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

The second and sometimes most important part of the creative process is performing it live, so that the work can evolve to a different level and it is also important to make that connection with your audience as they are the reason why you make this work in the first place.

In the early days I was incredibly creative and productive - I loved the research trips, I loved the creation and finding technical solutions to creative challenges. I didn't need alcohol and the pills for that. What changed was, I was afraid to say no - that little word, N.O. Because I thought it showed weakness. And with more and more success I would just say yes. And keep on taking more work on - which took its toll.

People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

I'm a big believer in bringing in other creative minds; I do it in my commercial work.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

I'm a feminist, so it's just a really nice creative energy to work with a lot of women.

But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first draft is more creative and everything after that is ruining creativity.

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 work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

I had a fascination with the back side of the business, and the creative process always fascinated me. Vince gave me an opportunity in '98 to sit in the production meetings. He would talk creative with me, and we had this creative rapport.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

Creative work gives you an almost indissoluble connection with people.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.

Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents.

Twentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a 'working God.' Man was made to be creative, with his mind and his hands. Work is part of the dignity of his existence.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

I don't enjoy my work and don't get creative satisfaction if I do just one project and stick to it for years.

The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.

I'm always around creative people, and I'm trying to work on something constantly at all times.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

I worked at a bunch of other salons, and at one, this girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

There is people who make stuff with words. There is people who make stuff with programs. And I really believe that that whole creative culture, people didn't realize how creative programming is. And anybody who's done it of course knows that not only is it creative, but it's incredibly absorbing.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

If I'm writing and doing music celebrating the Creator, who is the most creative being in the world - I mean, when you look at nature and when you look at all of the beautiful created things - why should I be limited in expressing myself? He's creative, so why shouldn't my music be creative, too?

[I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.

Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

For basically three years, I was doing 'Catfish' and 'We Are Your Friends' at the same time - it was like straddling two very long-term creative marriages. And when you're in a long-term creative commitment, you tend to daydream and fantasize about smaller creative flings that you want to have.

Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Ryan Murphy's a brilliant director to work with who's very fun and creative.