Bertrand Russell Quotes

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

I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

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.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

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.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.