Creative Work Quotes

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

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

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

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

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

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

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

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

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 keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

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

At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

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

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

A creative person aspires to devote the core state of their mind fixated upon performing the surge of work that expresses the raw passion driving an evolving notion of their quintessence.

The point of dreams was never to be the affordable option, it was the one everyone else saw as a mistake and every creative person saw as an opportunity.

Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.

Lord, I pray that you will let my talent bring JOY and BEAUTY to a world that sometimes is dark and discouraging.

I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with.

Attempt always to uncover the beauty in everyday surroundings. If you cannot find it, then be the one to create it.

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative.

The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.

An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force.