351 Quotes About Creative-process

To be a successful person you often have to create a strong foundation with the bricks others throw at you.

Doubt is a key to unlocking new ideas. Einstein doubted Newton. Picasso doubted Michelangelo. Beethoven doubted Mozart. That’s why they moved things forward.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

The history of culture is one of negativity towards new work and new ideas, to a point where public annoyance can be seen as an endorsement.

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

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

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."(Casual Chance, 1964)