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• One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

  John Zorn

  Creative, Doe, Needs

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

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• I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Creative, Looks, Serious

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• Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nursing, Creative, Sitting

  "A lack of elegy" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2006.

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• What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

  Jonathan Ive

  Ideas, Next Day, Creative

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: Knighted for services to ideas and innovation". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.independent.co.uk. March 13, 2012.

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• Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Creative, Want, Buzz

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward.

  Billy Gibbons

  Music, Moving Forward, Believe

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• When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

  Jeff Bridges

  Creative, Kind, Process

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.

  Naum Gabo

  Plato, Reflection, Reality

  Eidos: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture, and Design, No. 1, p. 31, 1950.

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• People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, Believe, Taken

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• Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Spring, Eye

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• Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been able to hit that mark. The same with penciling. Sometimes it just flows, but more often than not, it's pure physical and spiritual torment just to get something decent on paper. I often get very discouraged with the whole creative process.

  Dave Stevens

  Spiritual, Jobs, Numbers

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• There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

  Neve Campbell

  Nice, Creative, Sitting

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• Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet state of equilibrium-impossible to achieve in an evolving system. Though refraining from harm is an essential first step, lasting peace is created by actively redressing harm done. Peace is a creative process of actively joining I and thou into a co-creative we. It requires authentic communication, empathic listening, and wildly creative solutions.

  Anodea Judith

  Peace, Communication, Creativity

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• We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive.  It’s very rare to be able to do that.  It’s completely pure.

  Julie Delpy

  Creative, Want, Able

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• Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Fun, Creative, Way

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• For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

  William Lipscomb

  Creativity, Sleep, Night

  "William N. Lipscomb Jr., Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 91" by Glenn Rifkin, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Art, Creative, Important

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Thinking, Average, Ideas

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• Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Creative, Secret

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• It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

  Eric Hoffer

  Heart, Men, Imagination

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• The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

  Peter Bart

  Creativity, Creative, Hollywood

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• The creative processes are so mysterious.

  Jimmy Webb

  Creative, Mysterious, Process

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• I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

  David Boreanaz

  Creative, Vision, Want

  "BONES’ David Boreanaz on 100 episodes and beyond". Interview with Jim Halterman, jimhalterman.com. March 31, 2010.

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• I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

  William Hurt

  Creative, Acting, Process

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• Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.

  John D. Arnold

  Ideas, Imagination, Creative

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