Quotes on Creative Work

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

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

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

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

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

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

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.