351 Quotes About Creative-process

Creativity is the tangible manifestation of an indulgent excursion through a higher state of transcendental consciousness.

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!?- You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

Quite frankly, every single day that I do something creative, and show it to people, I'm nervous. Even this video, I'm like, 'You're too earnest, it's not funny enough, nobody likes you.' Um, well, I gotta do it, because unless I say something about the world I don't know if it's worth gettin' up in the morning....Was that depressing, or inspirational?

Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.(Interview with Paris Review, 1958)

What a heartbreaking profession he had chosen, but she supposed there was no choice when it came to creative callings. They were more like curses.

Better to do something simple which is real