The Creative Process Quotes

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault

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.

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

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!

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

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

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

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

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

When dreams come true creativity becomes art.

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

The creative journey is not a trek through the wilderness, but actually a clearly defined path, which though not visible to our outside eyes, can be felt with our inner senses.

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

The movementOf the body isWhere poetryBegins

Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.

A creative mind is a spark of divinity.

Whenever new knowledge causes you to question your previous assumptions, the stage is set for creative transformation.

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

You have enough to create what you want.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

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

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind